It’s been a long while since my last post.
The past several years have made continuing with my writing career a real challenge—to the point I thought I might never complete my next book. But one of my mottos in life is, “Persistence Pays,” and so I persisted.
That persistence meant setting aside all social media, my newsletter, and even my blog so that the precious little time I had left over from my day job could be devoted exclusively to writing.
But that effort finally paid off.
This past week, I sent Monster: A Prequel to The Chosen to my editor, for, what I hope, is the final time.
It’s a much different version than the Monster of several years ago, and that is a good thing.
For those of you who’ve read the other stories in THE CHOSEN and WORLD OF THE CHOSEN series, I hope you’ll enjoy this backward step in time to Sunny’s beginnings, when she was just a struggling single mom trying to do the best for her teenage daughter. Though you already know that part of her journey, experiencing it with her will bring new meaning to her actions in the later books.
And if you’ve not yet read Watcher: Book I of The Chosen or any of its related stories, Monster provides the perfect entry point to The Chosen world, where you’ll accompany Sunny as she’s forced into a violent new existence and embarks on a dangerous mission to ensure her daughter remains safe from those who would do her harm.
Publication is scheduled for late April 2023.
~ RM
