So, now that Swing for the Fences has ended, my latest novel has started posting, Medellín. It's very, very different in tone and theme than Swing for the Fences was,  but I just ask (and hope) that readers give this one a chance, as it is probably my most personal and favorite story to date that I've written. Very heavy on the teenage angst, with the addition of bullets, bombs, and multiple love interests for Hunter (who is probably one of the most unsympathetic and unlikable narrators I've ever written).

For all those who are sad that Swing for the Fences has ended, it really hasn't. I'm well into the writing of the sequel, titled Swing for the Fences: Stealing Home (or just Stealing Home). It will be 45 chapters like the original, but these will be much, much longer chapters. I've been stuck on Chapter 20 for a few days, because it's such a pivotal chapter, and then needed a break from that, so I've been reorganizing my outline for the second half of the novel, which will, hopefully, make it better. I love being in those characters' heads again, especially Nick's, but there are also some very intriguing new characters and friends for Nick, and I don't think it would be much of a spoiler to say that Nick and Jack will face a few little bumps in their relationship along the way. I'm aiming for a Spring 2026 release, but if it's done sooner (although the two rounds of editing/reviewing take a lot of time), then I'll release it as soon as Medellín is finished.

And, as I promised, to add to the Swing for the Fences Universe, I will occasionally be posting some short stories about one or more characters in various situations during the timeline of the original novel, but told from the third-person POV, so we'll get another perspective that doesn't come with Nick's own perceptions affecting the narrative as you get with first-person POV. And I've been playing around with third-person POV (my Halloween story, The Boy Who Hunts Ghosts (...And Kisses Them) was written in third-person. Maybe I'll eventually write a whole novel in third-person POV, but first-person's always been my favorite. Anyway, this series of short stories (I almost have the first one ready to go, just need to make some more edits) will be called Swing for the Fences: Extra Innings, just to keep the theme going (even though the series itself has nothing to do with baseball, but was inspired by an Elton John song).

And, last but not least, once Stealing Home is finished, I am still planning on getting back to work on When I See You Again, although I warn you that I may have to make some edits/changes to the first five published chapters to make sure everything fits with what I want to do for the rest of the novel. No idea how long it will be, but I imagine it will come nowhere close to Swing for the Fences or even Medellín, maybe 20-25 chapters (including the five that I already wrote). Anyway, we'll see.

I hope all of my American readers had a lovely Thanksgiving. Even here in the jungles and mountains of Colombia, there is an American expat couple who have a catering business, and they do wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas spreads, so I had that delivered yesterday and it was delicious. I still have a pumpkin pie cheesecake that I haven't even tried yet. Speaking of cakes, two REALLY cute guys just knocked on my door about 5 minutes ago trying to sell cakes, but they wanted 60,000 Colombian pesos (COP) for them, which I am not wiling to spend on a dry, flavorless Colombian cake. Sorry, boys! I really did have to think about it a moment, though, because they were so handsome and polite. Oh well ...