Whiskey Creek Press will be publishing the sequel
to Storm Chaser!
The Notorious
Ian Grant, which should come out next fall, takes place just after the
events of Storm Chaser. Although
there are general spoilers referencing the end of the first book, I took care
to write the second in such a way that you don’t really have to read Storm Chaser in order to enjoy it –
although I’d prefer you did.
While Storm
Chaser is a romantic comedy, The
Notorious Ian Grant is more of a humorous novel with a romance in it –more
laugh out loud funny, I hope. The main characters are police detective Fran
Vargas, who you’ve met before, and Ian Grant. (Most Storm Chaser characters put in an appearance, including a certain
blonde teenager who proved a fan favorite in the first book.) Ian is mentioned, very briefly and not by
name, in Storm Chaser, and has a
similarly brief appearance in one of the stories of Storm Chaser Shorts.
What’s it all about, you say?
When infamous party boy and b-list celebrity Ian Grant learns his sister is marrying a cop, he abandons his Hollywood lifestyle and drives straight to Indiana. His plan: to make up for all those times he embarrassed and humiliated his family … by taking charge of the wedding planning. So, Ian’s never planned a wedding – how hard could it be?
The little town of Hurricane, Indiana, is like another world—a world Ian wouldn’t mind being part of, if only people would stop judging him by his previous antics. He might even have a chance at romance with his future brother-in-law’s coworker, detective Fran Vargas. But for Fran everything’s gone wrong since Ian arrived, including the loss of her home, their confrontation with a bullying politician, and an influx of nosy reporters and angry ex-girlfriends.
There’s also
the fact that Ian’s wedding planning keeps getting interrupted by someone
trying to kill him.
No one ever
said redemption is easy.
If Ian
seems familiar, you may have caught a short story I wrote that takes place just
before The Notorious Ian Grant, at a
low moment in his life:
Good luck with it!
ReplyDelete(I still think you'd do better with it by self-publishing....)
I'm thinking it's an idea worth putting to a test. Let's see about doing a self-published novella around maybe the first of the year or so ...
DeleteWonderful news, Mark. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteThanks! We trudge on forward.
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