The next Cameron Vail mystery is written, although it's not quite ready for publication yet. My reader is taking a second look at it to make sure it works as a story. If all goes well, I'll have it published by the middle of next week. The title is still up in the air; I have a working title, Cold Star, but I'm not in love with it. I figure I'll unleash my subconscious mind on it tonight and get a good title out of it.
The story goes back to Cameron and Bill's college days, about a year after the events of Final Exam. This time, they are investigating an old case, an accidental death of a Hollywood starlet. Something in the case doesn't quite add up, though, and before long they are looking for a murderer.
Even though it's the fourth Cameron Vail mystery that I have written, it will be the second one, chronologically, taking place before The Missing Magnate. I don't know if I'll go back to the college setting again, but we shall see; I didn't expect to go back there for this book, either.
After that, it's science-fiction time, my first sci-fi book. Tentatively titled The Interplanetary Adventures of Bard Conley, that pretty much sums up what the book is about. It's a ten-story anthology, and it will take readers on a tour of our solar system far into the future, about a thousand or so years from now, through the eyes of an adventurous ex-Space Marine and his intrepid crew aboard the Scheherazade. No, it's not a travelogue; it's pulp-style science fiction action and adventure, with lots of stuff blowing up and many futuristic guns to be fired. I hope you'll like it. You can get a taste of what it's going to be like in the opening story from A Universe of Possibilities, which is also the first story in the Bard Conley anthology.
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