This has not been the best year, and I feel that I’ve been under water for most of 2025. But this morning it occurred to me that I’ve never posted the cover for The Wild Road here, so first things first.
Cover art by Jody Lee.
The Wild Road is the second book in the series; it follows Hunter’s Redoubt.
I have been working on the third book, but ‘working’ means starting it over and over again. But this morning when I woke up, I had that flash of insight that meant I’d been starting from the wrong place. Again.
All West novels do this. To be fair to me, much of April was taxes and house repairs and copy edits (Cast in Blood) — the first attempt of which was entirely eaten by Microsoft Word to my utter despair. On the day it happened, I almost emailed my editor to tell her that she could just approve everything. Or burn it. I spent six hours fruitlessly searching system files and invisible folders, and my long suffering husband did the same, but in UNIX. Instead, I slept on it (late), and then started to redo everything I’d lost – and I did nothing else for several days.
My writer brain has therefore been running around like a headless chicken.
My author brain, which is the brain that remembers to, oh, post covers here, has been on life support.
In the meantime: Jody Lee cover!
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It’s beautiful!