Over the last week, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal that spurred an idea for my next novel.  Suffice it to say, there are practices and products being developed at a certain now-infamous insurance giant – yes, the one that nearly single-handedly destroyed the country's financial system just a couple of years ago – that so compellingly lay a plot line out for a novel that it's impossible to not write it.

This comes at a good time.  The sequel to "Flesh Wound" , which was 25,000 words done, had stalled for me.  I still knew the story, but it was no longer inspiring.  A lot of life events that happened since I started writing that book had a lot to do with the cooling of that internal fire, but the fact is that book needs to hibernate for now.

It's good to feel re-inspired.  This book will take a long time to write, but that's good.  It will be a test of the mettle of the idea for it to remain compelling over the time it will take to write.

Now, on to research…