It has been an interesting week for me in terms of my writing. I’ve implemented a progress tracking bar on my website to help readers follow along with how the next book is coming in a new mystery series. This is the third book in the Russian alternate history mysteries, the first of which is After Yekaterina. That book is finished and has come back from my advance readers, so I’m doing some final tweaks and then it will be ready for publication. Watch for it soon. I’ll do an announcement. The second book in the series is called Mareson’s Arrow. That book is written and is about to undergo editing before asking first readers to take a look. The third book in the series is tentatively titled The Tsarina’s Mask. We’ll see whether that title sticks, but that’s what I’m calling it for now. I think I’m about three quarters of the way through Mask which means that the first draft should be done before the end of the month and then I can do first draft edits and get it to my first reader. Yay!

But here’s the problem and I need your help.

I don’t know what to write next.

Usually I just pluck the next project from the sky, but I have a number of projects that I would like to get to. I’d love to hear from you what you’d like me to work on. I won’t promise to write the book you suggest right away, but it will be higher up the pile with your input than it might otherwise be. Here’s what I’m thinking of in no particular order:

1. Another magical creature romance in a similar vein to Surviving Safe Harbor.
2. A Cartographer/American Geological Survey novel starring Vallon Drake’s best friend, Fi Murdoch.
3. A new Phoebe Clay Mystery (most likely set in Myanmar.)
4. Another installment of the Aung and Yamin mysteries.

So what do you think? Any preference of order of how I get to these? Please help me pick my next project!

Thanks,

Karen