WritingMadeHard

To quote the theme song of the old Gene Autry TV show, I'm "back in the saddle again." Back in Dallas, that is, visiting my daughter and hoping to get some work done on my new novel, Blood Moon. It is a sequel to both Dark Moon which is unpublished and Dreams of April Ten which is available at www.fictionwise.com and www.whiskeycreekpress.com or you can get an autographed copy by emailing me at stevelafevers@yahoo.com . Anyway, it takes place a little in the future, I guess, in New Orleans which is under quarantine. No one is allowed in or out of the Big Easy and no communications are allowed between it and the outside world. It has been that way since an outbreak of some disease 20 years before that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens. An industrialist, actually a pharmaceutical manufacturer, hires the people at AnswerMan to get his niece who is immune to the illness out of New Orleans. On the surface, that is what is going on, but underneath, it is much more complex. The industrialist has no niece, no one is immune, and the city is over-run with shap-shifting creatures called the Loup Garou! Why does the industrialist really want the girl out of the city? Can the folks at AnswerMan do the job? Where did all those creatures come from? If the girl is infected, will getting her out place the entire world population at risk? And what does all this have to do with Joshua Jones, a 20-year old man who escaped New Orleans just before the place was tied up tighter than a football player's pants? Those are the questions I'm trying to answer, but the more answers I come up with the more questions arise. That is what makes writing hard, I guess.