Big News!

I’m so excited to share the news with every­one: Dou­glas & McIn­tyre has acquired world English-language rights to my fifth novel (still unti­tled). I haven’t fin­ished writ­ing it yet, though it’s slowly round­ing the bend towards com­ple­tion. Hav­ing my pub­lisher believe in me to such a degree means so much, and I’m hon­estly astounded by it. I will be work­ing extra hard to fin­ish this book by spring. Sleep, you are offi­cially on hold.

As you can see from my blurb below, the set­ting is quite dif­fer­ent from my pre­vi­ous nov­els. My wing mus­cles are aching just a bit. The seed for this story came from my father-in-law who was born in for­mer Yugoslavia, and moved to Canada in 1974. He is always eager to share his his­tory, and I’m always eager to lis­ten. More on that later…

For now, here’s a teaser:

Fall, 1953, three teenagers find a clutch of long-lost Roman coins while clear­ing veg­eta­bles from a gov­ern­ment field. The deci­sion to keep the coins instead of turn­ing them over soon turns dis­as­trous when one of them dis­ap­pears. The remain­ing two are left to ques­tion every­thing they believed to be true, while the mother of the miss­ing boy slowly unrav­els. This is a story of fatal plans and silent betray­als in a tightly knit vil­lage just north of Bel­grade. Here the post­war air is simul­ta­ne­ously flushed with hope, weighted with sus­pi­cion, and rife with orphaned words no one wants to claim.

And here’s the link from Q&Q:

http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=12018