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AOTW: What are you working on now?
Jennifer Blake: Wade was the final book in a series. With its completion, I took a long, hard look at my options and decided that contemporary settings had lost their appeal. At the same time, I recognize the nostalgic pull of tales similar to those I wrote back in the 1980s and early 1990s that were set in historical Louisiana, stories with more civility and less horror than is found in modern times. So my next book, the gods of publication willing, will be a historical set in 1840s New Orleans and replete with all the grace, manners and notions of honorable conduct that I can cram into its pages. Life will be beautiful and languid on the surface, even if sometimes seamy and breathlessly fast-paced underneath. In short, it will be a retreat from everyday events, a deliberate escape into the past.
Philip Jolowicz: My second novel. It is set in New York.
Jim Fusilli: I'm about to turn in the third book in the Terry Orr series, which is titled The Last Witness. So next I'll do a first draft of the fourth book. I'm also working on a detective book that takes place in New York City in the 1870s. People who've read Closing Time or A Well-Known Secret know it's the book that my character Bella wrote as a 12-year-old.
Lori Woolridge: I'm now finishing up a new novel called Mourning Glo. It's a story about Seraphim Taylor, who at age 32, learns the true identity of the mother she was told died when she was three years old, and her quest to understand the mother she never knew and the woman she has become in her absence.
The novel is being excerpted in Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Fiction, edited by E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden. It will be out in October 2002.
Bruce Feiler: Abraham is being published on September 17th and I'm heading out on a three-month speaking/book tour that will take me to thirty-five cities. But the most exciting thing I'm working on is a two-week campaign of grassroots interfaith discussions I'm planning with William Morrow around Abraham. Our goal is to help libraries, bookstores, church, synagogues, mosques, community centers, or whomever plan an informal conversation (called an Abraham Salon) among individuals from one or more of the Abrahamic faiths. Anyone interested in hosting or participating can sign up for a packet at www.brucefeiler.com or call 212/207-7780. We hope to have as many as 100 conversations going between November 8th and 24th.
William Carman: Several things, among which are my new children's book. One is a light, humorous book about escalating pet tricks and the other retelling the story of my mother's antics as a smuggler during W.W.II in the Asian theater.
Earl Merkel: In addition to promoting my current book, Final Epidemic (release date: Oct. 1), I'm working madly on other writing projects.
My second novel, Like Distant Cities Burning, is currently in edits at Penguin Putnam. I'm in the final polishing of my third novel, Dark Waters, Overflowing, a thriller, and am several chapters into my next novel, a mystery entitled Parts Unknown. And a comedic thriller I've been playing with for a few months --- tentatively entitled The Right Stiff --- keeps pushing me, demanding attention.
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