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Tower Lowe
Hi C: So glad you are looking forward to the next installment. One more draft, then off to the editor. That would normally mean 2-3 months, but I have a family issue, so it might be 6 months. The working title is "Premonition." Cotton Lee's friend is killed while hunting, and she finds fifteen gold coins minted by the United States Treasury in 1862 in his hunting satchel. As it turns out, the truth is hidden back in Civil War times, when the coins were brought south by a Yankee soldier who fell in love...
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Tower Lowe
I am reading The Long Night of White Chickens, a gorgeous book, vos, about Guatemala. Then, I plan to read several of the Michael Connelly Lincoln Lawyer books and maybe a Joe Nesbo -- although Joe does a lot of the most horrible crime imaginable books, and I get weary of those at times. No women here..are there. I am reading a romance by Kristen Ashley, which is not really my thing, but is well-written. (I don't see myself allowing a stranger to enter my bed every night, and I don't even know his name, no matter HOW good he is in bed. I know, it's a fantasy, but I'm just not there, for some reason.) I did just finish a lovely, fun romance by called Christmas on the Strand by Loretta Wheeler. The author has a very special sense of design that comes through in the book, and the characters have esp. It's uplifting and delightful. Meanwhile...Loretta's book has made me think of doing a new series of mysteries that are totally cozy and involve a retired couple who run a detective agency to search out estranged family members...they travel to look for these people...and the whole crazy family works for the business. We'll see, we'll see. Happy reading to you, dear readers!
Tower Lowe
That would be In Taos, Turmoil -- the idea for that book came from a visit years ago to Taos. I was meeting distant cousins, or something like that, and one of them was a sandbox therapist -- using past lives and future lives to help a person...cope, I suppose. It set me to thinking about Taos and a few of the characters I met there.
Tower Lowe
An elementary school teaching named Robert Lee Davies. My first short story was : "Trapped in the Sewer". My classmates still remember it!
Tower Lowe
I am currently working on #8 in my Cinnamon/Burro New Mexico Mysteries: In Taos, Turmoil. AND I have a finished rough draft of the next book in my Cotton Lee Historical Mystery series, Premonition. And I'm thinking about a new cozy series (see question above about mystery in my own life).
Tower Lowe
Write! That's what "they all say" but basically it's true. I write as much as I can now. And I learn by doing...
Tower Lowe
It's interesting to me to learn how to create better plots. And I LOVE creating characters. That's the best thing. The worst thing: paying a lot of money for proofreading and there are still typos! Oh, well. I think I lot of other writers blow this off, because, in truth, I see plenty of typos in books published by the big five. So why should I be so worried? (I'm probably a closet perfectionist -- yuck). Thank goodness, my dear readers often contact me with these typos and I can fix them quick and easy...
Tower Lowe
For me, I can't afford it. I keep writing. I have a minimum word count and I stick to that. I push, you know? If I stop writing, the whole dream goes down the drain!
Tower Lowe
Here's what I'm thinking...why do children chose become estranged from their parents and/or the rest of the family. I know several people in this circumstances. What happened? In my experience the story, to an outsider, is often...we, silly. To an outsider -- of course, for the person, it is deeply painful, and I get that. But, what if there were more to the story. What if there were a deeper mystery that the person is covering up? I'm thinking of starting a cozy series (my current series is sort of mixed mystery genre, cozy, suspense, horror, paranormal) where two detectives, a retired man and wife, are hired to find the true reason behind these estrangements. The detectives travel to different locations to find the truth. Of course, who these detectives are is still in the works!
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