Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, including five of the best – Brian, Kevin, Howie, AJ, and Nick! It’s been so fun watching the guys grow up and start families of their own. In case you missed the video of them bringing (almost) all the kids onstage during “No Place” earlier this month, it’s a perfect day to watch it! I doubt there are any dads reading this post, but if so, you’re awesome, and I hope you have a great day!
Chapter 44 of My Brother’s Keeper is up! I made it past page 500 of the story this weekend! While it’s far from my longest novel, it is the longest story I’ve written all in one Google Doc, which is very slow-loading at this point, LOL. I’m determined to stick it out until the end. I’m still a few chapters ahead of what I’ve posted and am currently working on Chapter 47 out of a planned 50. I feel like I’m rushing through some things in these last few chapters and could easily add at least a couple more, but I’m trying to only focus on events that directly relate to the plot and not get distracted writing about things that happened during this time period in real life but don’t have an impact on Kevin and Nick’s story. I’m also still planning to start a sequel when this story is done, as long as I don’t get a better idea before then. I’m not expecting that to happen, but you never know! This is the time of year when that tends to happen to me; I always seem to get story ideas on or around the Fourth of July. Some of my favorite ones have come in a sudden flash of inspiration when I was either trying to finish a novel or just starting a new one. The idea for A Heart That Isn’t Mine came to me in June as I was in the middle of my end-of-story streak for Sick as My Secrets, and I got the idea for Curtain Call in early July after I had just started posting Guilty Roads. So I know better than promise anything until I actually start posting said sequel. But it has a title, outline, characters, and a banner already, so it’s in good shape for a story that hasn’t actually been started yet.
Thanks for reading!