An author knows the end is near when Amazon starts sending, "Are you sure your book is ready for publication?" notices, and I experienced the first of those over the weekend. That meant a day of making sure, checking everything twice and maybe once more.

YESTERDAY'S MURDER is pending. It can be pre-ordered, which is a good thing for authors. Every pre-order is counted on release day (August 3rd, in this case), so the book rises in the algorithms, which gets it seen by more people, who buy it and make it rise even more...I don't get it either, but I know that the more books you sell, the more Azon likes you.

This one is the story of a woman who wakes from a long-term coma to find her world changed. When she becomes focused on investigating crimes that happened while she was asleep, she invites trouble, not just for herself, ut also for her family and an old friend.

The fun part of writing this book (Oh, of course it's ALL fun, but....) was imagining what it would be like to miss a big chunk of time in our fast-moving society. Not only would we have to "update" our brains, but we'd have to assign some level of importance to each bit of info. How much do you need to know about "Uptown Funk"? Malala? Jeffrey Epstein? (No, I didn't go there. Who knew it would become such a big deal?) The point is that life is a collection of experiences and knowledge, and we never know which bit will become important later on. In the case of my protagonist, Tonnie Berndt, what she doesn't know CAN hurt her.

Preorder HERE