21 Feb February Catch Up
Another Olympic morning. Have you taken up residency in front of your television as we have?
First order of business, my visit to the Book’s Better in Smiths Falls has been cancelled for today with a new date TBD, likely in the summer. I am still booked for Rockland Public Library on Wednesday evening, however. It’s a book club so should be a fun evening.
I kept plugging away at the latest Hunter and Tate manuscript and am nearing in on 53,000 words. Rounding into the last 20,000 words, so the end of the first draft is in sight. Then the real work begins. Dundurn also returned some copy edits for my review for Nobody Tell with a Tuesday deadline. Good thing the Olympics end Sunday 🙂
This feels like a nice interlude to concentrate on writing without many publicity commitments. I did a ton of store signings last year, which were great, but they take up my Saturdays. I won’t have a book release this spring as I have the past few years, so I won’t be actively pursuing signings. As for timing, Nobody Tell will be issued from Dundurn in January 2027, while the fifth Hunter and Tate that I’m writing now should be out in the fall of this year. I also have a short story in a Dundurn anthology with a monster theme that should be released this summer.
So here is that Tik Tok video that I made with Shayne of Coles Carlingwood a few weeks ago, speaking about Sullivan Entertainment optioning Cold Mourning for television. There are not any updates to report. Sometimes, it all feels like a dream.
Time to snuggle under a throw, drink a second cup of coffee and watch Olympic curling. Canadian women are going for bronze and the men go for gold later today. Also the men’s hockey team goes for gold against the U.S. tomorrow morning. Should be an exciting weekend!
And speaking of curling, Ted (on right) and his team scored a rare 8-ender on Thursday morning at the Hunt Club!
