Now that I’ve said all that, I can’t recall what I came here to say, but…the book is out! Get you some HOT PATCHOULI, and get it today! Thank you for supporting small business witchiness Mucho thanks to all who beta read for me, including Emma Jameson, Kat Bradbury, and Chrissy Garrison.īy the way, another difference between Miss Fitz and myself…she doesn’t like patchouli, and I really, really do. This one took a lot of extra work, and I’m proud of the results. I’d never have been able to be proud of this book if I’d released it as-is at the end of the first draft. Reading a book a week–heck, even reading a book a month–is the kind of pace no writer should ever have to keep up with. It’s inevitable that you eat up a certain line of supply and move onto another. Being a voracious reader is a trait I’m proud of. I get it! I sometimes finish a book and go, “AAnd then when the next book comes out in the original series, I sometimes need to reread the first book to get caught up. It’s okay to admire other authors who can do it. As the great Chuck Tingle would say, that’s not my trot. Still, every book ends up being HARDER than I expected. I’ve been working on this particular artform for the better part of two decades, and I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’ve been bursting to tell stories like this my entire life, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to do it now. Miss Fitz doesn’t aspire to be a novelist, whereas I have been publishing novels for years. I used to freelance so much, I had no writing energy left to work on fiction.

Missy still freelances–something I haven’t had to do for years. Doing that is such a joy, I can’t help but feel like I get the better end of that deal. On the other hand, I get to write about Missy and Sin and all their kids, dogs, cats, friends, ghosts, goblins, and so on.

In many ways, she lives an idealized version of my own life, I can’t lie. She spends a lot more time in person with her friends than I do. She does odd jobs, whereas I do gig work sometimes, but only after writing for the day. One of the main differences between Missy and me, however, is that she doesn’t take on huge, long-term projects other than raising her kids. I have a zillion kids–she has a zillion kids. I have chronic illness–she has chronic illness. Don’t test me–it’s too hard, comparing myself to their immense productivity.Īnd that’s the thing, you know? I’m so much like Missy, the star of these books. I always have this idea that I’m going to finish a book in a month, edit it the next month, publish it the third…wash, rinse, repeat…end up with a completed trilogy done in under a year.īut you would not believe how many authors do it on a tighter schedule than that. Okay, it didn’t take an entire year, so, honestly, that’s pretty decent as far as novels go, but… Miss Fitz and the Hot Patchouli Murder

SPI Girls Kick Ass! by Kat Bradbury