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And now, for a sneak peek at the mystery novel I'm currently working on...called Small Town Secrets.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Passionate, wounded, and fiercely alive, Leeanne Hessinger has never felt free. She wants something more, something bigger than the life she’s stumbled into as a wife and dispirited drug store clerk, but fleeing to a town unknown to her with a single promise in mind—to finally write a novel—comes at a very high price. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death a year later, a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront as the sheriff investigating the crime covers up her own treacherous involvement with the dead woman. Full of twists and turns, SMALL TOWN SECRETS reconstructs a year in the life of Leeanne Hessinger, as she walks the brink of her own destruction and inches closer and closer to death. The cost of freedom, for Leeanne, is ultimately her life.
This stand-alone story centers on the murder of a dangerously mesmerizing woman, and challenges the concepts of both freedom and feminism as lines between ambition and culpability blur. Fans of literary fiction with a mystery through-line will likely love this novel for its deeply drawn characters, voice-driven narratives, and controversial subject matter.
I actually wrote Small Town Secrets a few years ago, but thought the story could benefit if I stuck it in a drawer and didn't look at it for a few years. In the meantime, I continued ghostwriting fiction for other authors and I also wrote Thomas from the Sea.
But I've now taken Small Town Secrets out of the drawer it was hiding in, and I'm fixing it up, which has been a bizarre, interesting experience.
If you're an author and you've ever done the same--returned to a manuscript you haven't looked at in years--let me know about your experience in the comments section. For me, reading through the novel that I hadn't looked at in ages helped me to quickly clean up overly wordy writing, while at the same time enjoying the slow unfolding of the story. In a lot of ways, it was easier for me to act decisively and change what needed to be changed. It was also a lot easier for me to look at the manuscript objectively, and yet I felt entertained too, as if I was reading someone else's work and liking it!
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