Prunella will not let me stop writing. I thought I’d have a break after finishing Worlds Within Worlds, but no, the first scene of the next book popped into my head the day after I’d published it. Today I started writing it. Prunella Smith: Past Worlds, The Locksmith’s Secret. Who’s the locksmith? Jamie. The guy she meets at the market. What’s his secret? You’ll have to wait to find out. What else is going to happen? I have a general idea of the overall shape of the book, the main events and the end, but I’m not concerned with details at all. The basic plot is strong enough for me to know where I’m going, to know it will work, and I really liked the surprises in writing without planning that I had when writing Worlds Within Worlds. It won’t be a thriller though. It will be a multi-layered reality again and transrealist in nature, just like the last one. But it won’t be so Buddhist; I think that side of Prunella’s personality might manifest as an Italian Catholic nun. The book … [Read more...]