Ask the Author: Donna Ball
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Donna Ball
I'm so glad you like the Dogleg Island books! As you know, Flash of Fire was just published last year, and I have 2 other series going, so it will likely be 2025 before we see another Flash book. Meanwhile, I hope you'll enjoy the Raine Stockton and Blood River installments, which will be coming up this year.
Donna Ball
Hi! Yes, this is an ongoing series. Have you read Book 2, UNSTOPPABLE?
Donna Ball
Hi Claire,
The Judge's Daughter, Raine Stockton Dog Mystery #15, is now available in paperback, digital, hardcover and audio. The next one is not scheduled until 2024.
A new Buck Lawson book, UNFORGIVABLE, will be out this summer.
Thanks for reading!
The Judge's Daughter, Raine Stockton Dog Mystery #15, is now available in paperback, digital, hardcover and audio. The next one is not scheduled until 2024.
A new Buck Lawson book, UNFORGIVABLE, will be out this summer.
Thanks for reading!
Donna Ball
Hi Sue-- Book #14 in the Raine Stockton Series, MURDER CREEK will be out this winter. Thanks for asking!
Donna Ball
Yes! Expect a new Dogleg Island mystery later this year. You can sign up for my newsletter at www.donnaball.net so you'll be the first to know about new releases.
Donna Ball
Hi,
I think there's room for a few more Ladybug Farm adventures, although none are planned for the next year. It's easy to keep up with what's going on at Ladybug Farm in The Hummingbird House series, though. CHRISTMAS AT THE HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE is available now, and will be released on audio and in large print this holiday season.
I think there's room for a few more Ladybug Farm adventures, although none are planned for the next year. It's easy to keep up with what's going on at Ladybug Farm in The Hummingbird House series, though. CHRISTMAS AT THE HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE is available now, and will be released on audio and in large print this holiday season.
Donna Ball
Look for "Christmas at the Hummingbird House" this holiday season (I hope!)
Donna Ball
No more Ladybug Farm books are on the schedule this year, but I do have an idea for at least one more installment sometime in the future. But the spin-off Hummingbird House series will allow you to keep up with the characters, and it will have a new book this holiday season.
Donna Ball
FLASH will be out in all versions May 1 2015. I can't wait!
Donna Ball
If I waited for inspiration, I would never write. Writing is a discipline, a habit, a lifestyle. You do it, or you're not a writer.
Donna Ball
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Donna Ball
If I have a temporary block on a plot point or narrative flow that I just can't seem to get past, exercise the best cure: A walk, a half hour on the treadmill, dancing, playing the dogs. For anything bigger than that, therapy is generally required:)
Donna Ball
The best thing about being a writer is that I get to create the world I live in--over and over and over again.
Donna Ball
I have so many answers for that one that I teach entire workshops on the subject. One of my favorites is: if you are writing for any other reason than an obsessive all-consuming passion-- do something else.
Donna Ball
I'm so excited to be working on my first new series in almost ten years! FLASH is the first book in the new Dogleg Island Mystery series, starring-- who else?-- Flash the Border Collie. I think readers will find this series different from my others; it's kind of a hybrid between a cozy mystery and a suspense thriller; not a very likely combination but very compelling to write-- and I hope to read,
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