January 20, 2012
 Woo hoo! Today the second Hannah Morrison mystery, Through Dark Spaces, went up on amazon.com! It's been a while in the writing, research and editing, and it truly does feel like a birth. I don't know about you, but even though I love this book, I really hate it right now. I've spent the last month editing, fact checking (and I'm sure I've still got some things wrong) and formatting it, and I can't stand the sight of it. But it is my baby and I can hardly wait to see what you think of it. Right now, I'd say "stinker," but give me a couple of months and I'll love it again.
Through Dark Spaces is a sequel to Unreasonable Risk, and takes place in and around Lead and Deadwood, in South Dakota's lovely Black Hills. Hannah has quit her job at the refinery and started her own consulting  engineering company, Morrison Engineering. (Not very original, I know, but that's how engineers think.) In this book you get to meet a new cast of characters, from Hannah's self-centered covergirl sister, Maddie, to a café owner named Lila, who wears stockings hand-painted with flamingoes and clear plastic 3-inch heels despite the fact that she's already six feet tall. The men are unusual also, from miners Matt and Dooley to Hannah's nosey next-door neighbor Calvin who, at 70-something, uses email to keep up with local gossip when he's laid up and can't hobble down the public steps to the local café. Enjoy!
Whether you like Through Dark Spaces or not, I'm happy to have finished it. I'm off and running on the next Hannah Morrison mystery, and am also working on The Still Heart of Stones, women's fiction about infertility. I can hardly wait until the next birth!
Warm regards,
Karen |
