Well, it's been a while for sure since I've written here. BUT, look what has just been released... my fifth novel, 'Til Death Do We Part. It's up on Amazon today - order here!
The last few weeks have had me working with the publisher choosing the cover and then conversing with the editor. Not much to correct but each time that I receive the manuscript back, I have to read it all again and make sure I didn't miss something. Eventually, I receive the final copy to proof and once I approve it, off it goes. So all in all, it's been a very busy 4-6 weeks, but very productive as well.
This novel is set in Maine and Boston. The back blurb says:
"In “Till Death
Do We Part”, Judi Getch Brodman knits together a young woman, a murder, an
unanticipated love, abduction, and the twists and turns that her readers have
come to expect.
The
flaming red haired tomboy on the swing with the big smile returns years
later to a quiet snow covered village in Maine where she hopes for nothing more
than a final Christmas in the old family vacation home. Yet somehow Elle Harrington, now a forensic
consultant, becomes obsessed with solving the 1800’s murder of a woman found
buried under the old oak tree outside the house when she was a child. But how does she piece together long
forgotten history and hearsay, a forbidden love affair, and the contents of a
locket that she found wrapped around the woman’s bones? And enter another complication – a handsome
Boston architect who causes Elle to reassess her life while putting her in danger."
As I write, I never know where the characters are going... they just take me along and I'm their scribe. I'm busy working on two more manuscripts - one's a time travel which I love to write and many of my readers love those as well. This one takes place in France as my main character Amelia, a writer, winds up trying to solve a mystery while she's there to write her next novel. As usual, there are plenty twists and turns. I'm loving this one and hoping it might be out in spring, if I use my "pandemic time" wisely. The second is another in the Oyster Point Mystery series with the same characters everyone loved in "She's Not You" - Jamie and Jack.
My American readers had a very different Thanksgiving Day. Our table which is usually filled with thirteen, this year had only two of us. I feel the rest of the holidays might be the same this year, but we are willing to sacrifice in the hopes that next year will be twice as good. We Zoomed and toasted and cheered so the day wasn't a complete loss.
I hope that you are being safe during this time as we await a vaccine. Only a few more months... we CAN DO IT!!
In case I'm not back till the beginning of next year, have wonderfully safe holidays and let's kick 2020 right out the door on December 31st!!
Till,
Judi
