Good News! The first coherent draft of Trouble Takes a Holiday is finally complete!! It’s a massive 136,000 words. I’m exhausted. This was supposed to be a simple little one-off romp: with London Calling, Trouble goes to Europe to solve a spooky mystery in an old castle. Things just got out of hand.
Marco and I brainstormed this one in the Infinite Sadness of 2020’s cruel winter, freezing our asses off at the park, masked up and social distanced with Covid running rampant. But then I hit The Wall. One chapter in, I found it simply impossible to write from home. All Things Must Pass, and hot vax summer, brief though it was, lasted long enough for me to find my groove again. And then we got really ambitious. Shoutout to all the Starbucks I wrote this one in, drinking hot chocolate and masked up, just to be safe.
Thanks to everyone who’s stuck with us while I toiled away. Trouble is still finding new readers all the time, and we can really feel The Love Below every review and comment sent our way. If you liked the first two books, I think you’re going to love this one. There’s still a long road of edits and revisions ahead, but the end is now in sight, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Look for the next chapter in Trouble’s story this summer.
-JT