T2 - Troubleshooter Series book two has moved to the edtior

Long time no write; I've been busy busy busy getting the second installment of the Troubleshooter series on the road. During my two weeks vactions, I managed to get through my endless checklist of logical, grammar, and spelling tasks. And tonight: It's through and I just submitted it to the external editing service. Turnaround time is about two weeks, that gives me time to finalize the book cover and do structure work for my next book.

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And once more, as I was too lazy to cancel my Kindle Select status with Amazon: THREE FOR FREE!
Three days of a free copy of "Brilliant Actors", the second in the Calendar Moonstone Mystery series around our fierce heroine with the knack for diamond-induced trouble!
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Did I say for free?
Better believe it!

Editing for ages - will it end?

Busy busy busy editing the second Troubleshooter installment. But things are coming to an end. Working through the last revision of language and logic myself before submitting to the external editor. The cover has some first draft, too, will post that separately.
I hate this side of publishing as it is so uncreative, you just pour over words you have written ages ago over and over, smithing here and there but not really contributing anymore. It does improve quality, for sure, but it's getting away from the creative process.
But I am getting closer...
Just a few more weeks...

T2 Updates - a setup deconstructed.

I want to share with you some of the writing process on the example on my current ongoing book. There is no title yet, so it sits in my Production folder labelled "T2". It will be a kidnapping story where a high ranking manager of Strom Industries falls prey to kidnappers and Paul does his best to help "Troubleshooter" style. When I first thought about the story, I wanted it to be two distinct parts. First part is the actual kidnapping and ransom exchange and of course things go wrong and some action and shooting ensues. The second half of the book then brings our hero Paul Trouble in conflict with the actual kidnappers and I thought it would be nice if Paul is pitted against a whole group of bad guys in a very stark and lonely environment, where Paul is completely left on his own and the rest of the good guys are pure ball-on-chains, not helping Paul at all. So, that is the original setup: First part the kidnapping, second part a lonely fight in deep winter woods.
"Original" will not mean "final". I will try an experiment when the complete story is done and written and mash up kidnapping AND lonely fight sections. We follow the lonely fight out in the woods and in backdrops recite how Paul ended up in this situation. So for example, the last stand scene at the end of the book will be juxtaposed with the final scene before Paul is leaving for his trip into the wilderness.
It would be interesting maybe to do some A-B testing. One book version with the sequence action and another book version with the mashed up version.