BUT...
I feel like I might be crawling out of the black pit of despair, slowly but surely.
I actually finished an outline for ONE of the books I'd mentioned and I'm back to writing. I'd already had it partially written (some scenes here and there that had come to me), so now it's just a matter of putting them into place and connecting the dots; adding more flesh to the bones.
So what was that ONE book?
A Bear Mountain story.
I know I've told some of you guys that I was planning a Return to Bear Mountain/Next Generation series...
NO... this book is NOT in that series.... but YES, I still am planning to write RTBM.
But in my quest to get all my p's and q's in place, I re-read the entire Bear Mountain series, took copious notes, and let some ideas churn.
And I noticed I'd never told the story of Declan's YOUNGER brothers Kai and Landon.
They were mentioned at Gregor's funeral and then never showed up in the series again. In my mind, I knew where they were. I just forgot to tell you guys...
They aren't the next generation. They're about the same age as many of the McCreary boys.
So it didn't feel right to include them in a next generation series.
Kai and his brother bear Lane will be book 21. Landon and his brother bear, Chase, will be book 22.
Both of these stories will be post-Zed and a bit of a bridge between the stories that have already come and the new ones to come in the Return series.
Neither have firm titles yet, but I *HOPE* to have book 21 coming to you the end of October.
