I’m about 37,000 words into my second novel. The plan calls for it to be published in June.
It’s another political suspense thriller. What sets it apart from Death of Secrets is that it will be much more character driven, whereas I would call Death of Secrets plot driven. When writing Death of Secrets, if I needed the characters to take an action, usually the question I asked myself was “what can be thrown in their path that will make that action necessary.”
In the new novel, the question is far more often, “Why would she do that? How would she react to this?”
The novel is to feature characters from Death of Secrets, but mostly in supporting roles. I hope to be introducing a new main character who’s a lot more “action hero” oriented than any so far. The idea of Death of Secrets was to take ordinary everyday people and drop them into the middle of a deadly conspiracy.
The idea of the new novel is to take a highly competent, highly trained individual and put her in the middle of the same kind of deadly conspiracy.
This is not set in stone by any means, but a couple titles I’m kicking around are “Life of Secrets” or “Upper Chambers.”