I'm always a little wired on the days when I release a new book. Today just happens to be more so.
When I live with a bunch of characters for six months while my story takes shape, and I learn about their challenges and victories and heartaches, I start getting very impatient to share that with other people. While I made the decision to hold publication until the day that the Team Manager Series concluded, Full Frame has been finished since May and in various stages of rewrite and edit as I worked on the next two books in the "Photo Finish" series.
Comments and email coming in with the first posting are all about how I described the signal of WLS in western Illinois as weak and strongest at night on Nate's transistor radio. Yes, WLS was one of the strongest radio stations in the country, but I maintain, based on my experience growing up in northern Indiana with a crappy transistor radio in 1962-1968, that terrain and equipment quality affect the reception as much as signal strength. I'm sticking with the statement as written. That was my experience. Reception improved when I moved to Indianapolis.
I certainly wasn't expecting that to be the biggest issue, but I'm glad it was so simple.
There's a review by johnny69 up on SOL already, so if you're hesitating about reading, please check it out.
Aside from that, I'm currently in the airport in Indianapolis, waiting for a flight back to Seattle. I've been here the weekend for my UIndy class of 1972 fifty-year reunion. It was good to meet some old classmates and other graduates of the University, back when it was ICC, Indiana Central College, who knew my family, especially my mother who was the first ordained woman in the Methodist church in Indiana (not Illinois). It was fun to swap stories and reconnect.
I even picked up a story or two that I could integrate into Nate's experience at Columbia College Chicago in a future volume. I've also figured out who was in the picture that I'm currently using as a cover for book 3, Exposure.
I've just finished my lunch at Champ's in the airport and am ready to get a cup of coffee and relax at the gate while I finish posting a bunch of social media stuff.
Enjoy!