We have a publication date – March 28th 2017!!!

This awesome little addition was made to my Inkshares page last night.

Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know many of you didn’t realize just how long a wait it was going to be when you generously supported my quest to publish The Bones of the Past. To tell the truth, I had no idea how involved the process was myself. I’m now on a schedule to make edits and respond to questions from a sequence of editors through to October.

First up is the developmental edits where plot holes are identified, chronology issues are addressed, fat is trimmed and any big issues fixed. Then comes the copy edits to fix the overall quality of the writing and address any weird word choices I might have made and managed to ignore over my repeated rewrites. Then proofreads, looking at the layout of print and eBook formats… all of which is going to take longer because I can’t manage to tell a story in less than 460 pages… And of course during all that, the interior and cover of the book are going to be designed.

So there’s still lots of work ahead for me, but it’s a hugely exciting process where I get to work with a great bunch of very talented people. The end result is going to be so much better than I ever could have managed alone.

March 28th is a long way off and yet it’s tight for all the work still going into the book and then the marketing efforts that roll out before Bones lands in bookstores. But you won’t have to wait quite that long – Inkshares orders usually show up about a month early! 

Thank you all for your continued support, interest, and *cough* great taste in books! March is just around the corner!

Good morning! I’m  making good progress  on my second political thriller featuring Maren Kane as an ethical lobbyist.   A  round  of shootings  in California’s capital is  blamed by politicians and the media on  turf battles of rival gangs. But when Polly,  Maren’s best friend, is caught in the  crossfire and Polly’s teen son, Jake,  goes missing.  Maren pursues  her own theories! She is  terrified by  what she finds—by who might  really  be behind the violence—yet she knows  action is her only option if Jake is to have a chance of returning home safely.  I’m also been busy speaking about Maren’s first adventure, One Murder More, with over a dozen events  this summer!  One quick request: if you haven’t had a chance to "like" my Kris Calvin public author page on Facebook,  if you can please do  that now:

 https://www.facebook.com/Kris-Calvin-152337814840172/ 

I’m at  287  and would like to get to 300—those "likes" (1 click for you)  really help to  build my credibility in the thriller writer community! 

Thanks and happy  reading (and writing)! 

Kris    

www.kriscalvin.com