New Darby Book

A lot of you have been asking me if there's going to be a new Darby book.  The answer is yes.  She's not going anywhere.  I'll keep writing them as long as the interest is there from readers.

Later this fall, you'll see a book featuring Malcolm Fletcher from my first book, Deviant Ways, and the second Darby book, The Secret Friend.  It's called The Killing House (you can find out more about it on the website's front page).  I'm not going to lie to you: It wasn't a fun book to write.  Every once in awhile a writer tackles a book that somehow ends up tackling him again ... and again ... and again.  I went through this oh so wonderfully fun process with The Missing, and I went through it with The Killing House.  This is where a good editor becomes invaluable - and I was so fortunate to have a great one by my side, a woman who has helped guide me through all the Darby books, the wonderful Mari Evans.  All that hard work and all those restless night paid off, and I'm really excited by the results.  One of my early readers, a bookseller, called it the best thing I've ever written.  I hope you'll feel that way too.  It was a lot of fun writing about Malcolm Fletcher.  I have more stories with him in mind.

Back to Darby: all the work on The Killing House pushed off the fifth Darby book, but rest assured, I'm back with her - and Coop.  I don't want to tell you too much - things have a way of changing - but it's not going to be a sequel to The Soul Collectors.  At the moment Darby's currently lost in the middle of the Colorado mountains during a snowstorm, and she's trying to figure a way out.  I don't have a title yet, so if anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to send them my way!

I've made a promise to myself to blog once a week to keep you all updated as to what's going on with Darby and everything else in my writing life, so stay tuned.  

And, as always, thanks for your support and kind words.

Cheers,

Chris