Time to let everyone know what is happening in my writing life – we are twelve days away from the launch of my seventeenth book with Bloodhound, Nine Lives.
Nine Lives is set in Sheffield, specifically using the River Porter almost as a character. I had to do loads of research because I knew nothing of this very pretty river – I do now, thanks to a man called Patrick Dickinson who videos Sheffield’s rivers. I contacted him, discovered all about the Pocket Park, asked him for information on where the best places would be to throw a body in, that sort of stuff I expected him to know, and he obliged.
So that’s what I’ve been doing and it will all come to fruition in less than two weeks.
I am just about to type THE END on my next book, and its long journey to publication starts at that point. This one is the first in a spin off series that began with Kat and Mouse. The new series is called the Connection Casefiles, and this first book in a planned trilogy is called We All Bleed Red. It features most of the team from Connection in the Kat and Mouse series, with a couple of additions and a couple of departures. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing this first book, and it’s due for launch on 25th August 2021.
I have made the decision that when the trilogy is written, I will then only write standalones. I am dabbling and playing around with writing a second supernatural one (Winterscroft is my only supernatural and my favourite) which may or may not see the light of day, but that is a slow burner which is being written alongside my Bloodhound books.
Bloodhound Books are an amazing company to work with. They took a huge gamble with me, an almost seventy-year-old wanting to publish her first book, and in 2015 accepted my manuscript. By the end of 2021 I will have nineteen books with them, and I owe them everything. I hope I have repaid their faith.
Anita Waller 