The question this month is: What is new in 2022?
For me, I'm taking my character Gabriel Hawke back to the wilderness where his series started. It's going to require even more research than normal and I'm up for the challenge! I love research and learning new things. If you always keep an open mind to learning, you will never be bored. At least that's how I feel.
I will be learning about surviving in snow, blizzards, and tracking in the snow. My Fish and Wildlife State Trooper will be caught in the Wallowa Mountains with his girlfriend by a blizzard. When they reach the lodge high up in the Wallowas, they discover the helicopter they had ridden in on horseback for his girlfriend to fly out has been disabled. There is a body in the barn and a faint blood trail leading away from the lodge, where they also discover the radio smashed. Hawke has to decide if he should take his girlfriend off the mountain and return to look for the wounded man or remain on the mountain while the trail is fresh and they are more likely to find him alive. It will be a book of discovery for Hawke in several ways. Should be a good read! ;) When it's written! LOL
Then there will be the third book in the Spotted Pony Casino Mystery series, Double Down. This book will find my character Dela Alvaro as a suspect in a murder. In the book previous to this one, House Edge, an old boyfriend re-appeared in her life. In Double Down, she will discover who really knows her and believes in her when she is accused of murder. Her high school boyfriend, now Tribal Police Officer or the hunky FBI Special Agent who makes her blood boil both in anger and lust. Should be another good read! When it is written and released.
Then the 10th Gabriel Hawke book. This one will also be set out in the wilderness for a good portion of the book. Hawke's sister sends him a cryptic phone message and he heads to the Montana wilderness in search of a sister he hasn't seen in over ten years. That will require lots of research and I'm hoping a trip to Montana. ;)
Throw into this mix, I'll be writing a short story with my characters from the Spotted Pony Casino Mysteries for a murder, thriller, suspense anthology by authors of Windtree Press, an author cooperative. The title for my short story is: "A Body on the 13th Floor." That's as far as that story has been conceived so far.
As for other new things in 2022- My two oldest granddaughters will be graduating from high school in May. I'm happy for them both, but at the same time it makes me feel old. Right now, I am constructing quilts as their graduation gifts.
What exciting do you have planned for 2022?
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