Happy Monday, everybody! Hopefully. It’s Frantic Monday for me, as I’m presently in the middle of a move to a new apartment across town.
Moving is awful. It’s the worst. The last time I moved was halfway across the country; this time it’s a twenty-minute drive. I figured it’d be easier. Nope! It’s still endless checklists and to-do items and phone calls and “wait for this person to do a thing so this other person can do a thing, but also call these two other departments to make sure they do a thing first.”
I’m frazzled but still getting work done. Like proofing the audiobook version of The Locust Job, so we can get that out on Audible ASAP; I’m twenty chapters in and Adam’s doing his usual awesome job of narration. I’ve also finished reviewing copy-edits for The Insider, the second Charlie McCabe thriller, so all we have to do is the final proofread. On that note, looks like Thomas & Mercer Publishing finalized their back-cover blurb, so now I can share what Charlie’s second outing is about:
“Hard-bitten bodyguard Charlie McCabe is lucky to be alive after her recent foray into Boston’s criminal underworld. So she’s taking no chances with this next job: protecting Hayden Cobb, key witness in the trial against a trio of murderous cops known as the East Boston Three. If Cobb drops dead, the Three walk.
After an attempt on Cobb’s life, Charlie suspects the Three have somehow put a hit on him from behind bars, and the assassin’s still at large. And when notorious loan shark Jimmy Lassiter is dragged into the mix, he retaliates the only way he knows how—by striking at the heart of her family.
Now it’s personal. With her father held hostage and her client in profound danger, Charlie must act fast. Far too many lives are at stake, and though she knows she can’t protect everyone, she’s gonna try.”
That’s set for a July release. Meanwhile, the next Harmony Black novel — Black Tie Required — is still in heavy editing. I’m hoping for April on that one, fingers crossed.
Of course, my current major project is writing the first draft of the follow-up to The Locust Job, in between Running All the Errands and Doing All the Things. And with that, I’d better get to it.