I'm currently working on book 13 in my "The Deep End" series; "Possessing". It will be the final installment in the story of Justin Troy and Kirsten Hayes. I've really had fun writing about these two.. especially Kirsten. She's a very complex character with nuances that draw me in to her emotionally. I don't know if it's the same for the reader. I certainly hope it is.

The next book in The Deep End series will be "Jackass". It will be told from Jake's point of view. I expect that one to be my greatest challenge so far.

For Dave's sport-bike hobby, I was able to access the psyche of a friend who is a sport bike enthusiast and raced AMA in the past. For Justin and Kirsten's fishing trip... my brother Donnie was a wealth of information.

Jake will be harder... as I have no real-world frame of reference for a sociopathic, misogynistic, serial-rapist. It will be every bit based on research and my own training and dealings with offenders in my work. It will be interesting to see how I take all of that and form it into a believable, if not somewhat sympathetic, character and actually have the reader give a shit what happens to him.

I can tell you this much... it will not be sexually graphic... at least not the rape scenarios, so if that's the reason someone wants to read it... they will be disappointed. It will have some consensual sex as well and that will be written as any other sexual encounter, however, I can't stomach the notion of profiting from graphic depictions of rape. Too many women, men, and children have suffered it. It's not for mass entertainment purposes.

Oh well... back to "Possessing". Games are afoot!