A Step into the Unknown
As the finished manuscript of The Hounds of Spring went off to the printer, I was quite sure I was done forever with Poppy Starkweather, but so many readers have fervently urged me to continue I am exploring the idea. The question is, is there sufficient mystery here? Is there more we need to know about Poppy? When I wrote the first draft of The Hounds of Spring almost a decade ago I not only had specific goals (one was to set myself a doable task thus the 24 hour time frame), but I had a "what if" question, closely related to my life, that I was eager to explore. Without a doubt some of the intensity of The Hounds of Spring is a result of that quest. The above image captures some of what I have been feeling as I plunge back into Poppy's life. Albeit in a different way, this is just as big a leap into the unknown; a fragile bridge over an abyss has to...