Goodreads asked Brenda Marie Smith:

What are you currently working on?

Brenda Marie Smith I'm working with a professional editor to finish my second novel, The Death of Us. It's a personal, post-apocalyptic tale of a different sort, and I'm very excited about it. I expect to get the book back from the editor next week, then I imagine I'll have some rethinking and rewriting to do. Plus I'll have to develop, or write, marketing materials, etc.

And while The Death of Us has been with the editor, I pulled out a sequel to my first novel, Something Radiates, that I started years ago and have been stripping out the obviously wrong parts. What remains is pretty good, but it's only about 15-20% of the book, which I have a fairly detailed outline for (unlike my other two novels). I still haven't settled on the book's name: Something Reverberates? Some Things Resonate? Reality Resonates? I don't think I've quite hit on the right title yet. I've been working with my writing group to think through the story, where it should start (in media res, right), and what order things should happen in. But I will have to set this book aside again when I get The Death of Us back from the editor.

Plus, I've been getting detailed instructions from my editor on how to improve the book blurb, or advertising synopsis, for Something Radiates. So, I've been busy.

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