The answer? When the author’s fifth book is the third book in her just completed trilogy. I’m referring to my NEW book, Aerosol Sky, Book 3 of The Shade Ring Trilogy. It’s now available in ebook and paperback on Amazon, and in paperback from Barnes & Noble. Plus – and this is a mega plus – I’ve also just published an ebook box set that includes the complete trilogy! Am I excited or what? It’s called: The Shade Ring Trilogy: The Complete Trilogy Books 1 – 3. It’s available on

As I gear up to publish the final installment in “The Shade Ring Trilogy,” I’m pleased to report that two characters I deleted from the first book before it was published DID make a comeback in books 2 and 3. I deleted them because there were too many personalities for readers to keep up with as the story began on that expedition to sunken Charleston. Originally, the graduate students on the excursion in Chapter 1 of “The Shade Ring” included Neave Alvarez, her cousin and fr

I’m on the home stretch – polishing and revising book #3 of “The Shade Ring Trilogy.” It’s been a fun, challenging, memorable experience. A fellow author asked me recently if I would miss the characters once the trilogy is complete. I have mixed feelings. But, for sure, I’m really glad I got to know Neave Alvarez and the other characters! And it’s been a thrill to set my story a century in the future when, as the blurb says, “oceans have risen fifteen feet and it’s 120 degree