I just finished up Three Tales by the Bay. It was a lot harder to write than RAIN.

The first tale, Bohemia, being historical fiction required a ton of research.  I ended up reading Jack London's Valley of the Moon and all of the first person accounts of the Bohemian's I could find to get the flavor right. 

My only regret is that I didn't go through the work required to get access to the letters that Nora and Henry Laffler exchanged before she came to San Francisco.  That might have helped to get her voice right, but I'm still satisfied with that part.

Amazonia flowed a little more easily, but for some reason required a lot more polishing than I expected.

I thought Farallon was going to be the easiest, but it turned out to be very difficult.  I had to rewrite the ending several times and then I had to go back and tweak Cody to make him a little rougher.

Part of the problem was that I have less in common with Luz and Cody than I do with some of the other protagonists so getting them just right was a struggle.

The events in Five Mile Flat were also emotionally difficult to write.  The reader see's the chapter I'm referring to primarily through Cody and Luz's eyes and is only in it for however long it takes to read the chapter.  To write that chapter I had see it through the antagonist's eyes for many hours.  It's not pleasant being the character that hurts your protagonists.

In fact I almost concluded it would be too cruel to the reader until I realized they wouldn't have the same experience I had.

Now that the book is done and I have two books available, I'm starting the promotions process.

It's been kind of fun figuring out how to promote the books and I'm at the early stage when everything seems promising.

I have a third book mostly mapped out.  It will be a collection of short stories.  I have the rough draft of about a quarter of short stories done and I have the beginnings of another quarter ready to write. I  Just have to find the time.