Writing

Writing.

I know a lot of people would say going on vacation (what’s that). of losing themselves in some video game.

To me, Give me a room with a computer and Word on it, music, a blank page, and I’m in heaven.

Putting down my thoughts, or telling a story, now that’s when I’ve lost myself in the middle of something. I’ve lost myself in the act of creation. The putting together of words to tell a story. To express an emotion. To hopefully change a small piece of the world.

Everything else is a waste of time.

Right now, my act of creation is my next novel called Deadman! I call this a murder wrapped in a love story.

It’s an incident my readers have already seen part of, and that’s the Brightman disappearance. In Book One, the Cross and the Badge, Howard Brightman is an elderly gentleman dying with stage four cancer. When the mother and father of all storms comes through, he’s trapped up in the mountains and unable to walk out on his own. His sons make it out, and when they can’t get back up to him, it launches an all-out rescue attempt on RJ Madril’s part.

 After several close calls by the rescue team, they finally found the camp. Only he’s not there. It’s assumed he left shelter, and the storm killed him. And that’s where it sits until his remains are found almost two years later.

Deadman runs over some of this same territory we’ve seen before, only now, more so. The drawback of writing in the first person is that you can’t just jump into someone else’s shoes. Most of what we know so far has been told from the perspective of Will Diaz.Since it’s not really Will’s case; there are gaps in his reporting.

There are throwaways though the other novels, but it RJ’s and Pam’s viewpoints the fill in the Gaps. They’re both are up to their eyeballs in the case. The case is the backdrop for their relationship and falling in love. It’s also the psychology of their relationship that’s being resolved. RJ’s first wife left him, and Pam suffered for years with the belief that she had killed her husband. Part of teh book is about putting these haunting to rest.

Then there the fact of doing your job. It sometimes means destroying people you’d rather not. Pam knows the Brightmans. She, her first husband, and the Brightman boys were raised together. They’re all friends and neighbors. She considers them family.

And she has to destroy them with the truth of what happened.

Interestingly, the cover art for the book exists.

I hope you like it.