{"id":3259,"date":"2021-06-30T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:22:11","slug":"book-2-of-the-jessica-anderson-k-9-mysteries-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/author-novelist\/book-2-of-the-jessica-anderson-k-9-mysteries-is-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 2 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries is in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a small hiatus due to a very close friend developing some serious medical issues, I&#8217;m back doing what I&#8217;m supposed to be doing&#8211;finishing book 2 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries. The title has (almost) been locked in. It&#8217;s to be called <em>Stray Trouble<\/em>, and here&#8217;s the tentative cover for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Right now, I&#8217;m working through the final manuscript &#8230;about a month behind my original schedule, but, as they say, yes, life gets in the way, sometimes, especially when it&#8217;s one of your best friends who is in trouble. Once the manuscript is what I call &#8216;author final&#8217;, I&#8217;ll be sending it on to my editors. Once back from them, I&#8217;ll hit publish on Amazon for you, I promise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other news, you&#8217;ll be pleased to know that, in the down time, I did get book 3 almost completely drafted. I&#8217;ve got some holes to fill, and everything is always subject to change, but it&#8217;s already a pretty solid book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the challenges I had writing Book 2, aside from my friend&#8217;s dive into medical malaise, was the fact that search and rescue situations, especially those involving crimes, tend toward &#8216;situation-and-resolve&#8217;, so suspending the mystery for an entire book while maintaining tension can prove tricky. I think I&#8217;ve again managed to pull it off in book 2, but we&#8217;ll let you all decide that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so, here&#8217;s a sneak peek at the cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/StrayTrouble_6-30-2021_FCTrimmed_6x9Comp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/StrayTrouble_6-30-2021_FCTrimmed_6x9Comp.jpg\" alt=\"Book 2 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries by D. L. Keur\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/StrayTrouble_6-30-2021_FCTrimmed_6x9Comp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/StrayTrouble_6-30-2021_FCTrimmed_6x9Comp-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/StrayTrouble_6-30-2021_FCTrimmed_6x9Comp-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so what happened to the audio of Book 1? Well, that went south with aforementioned friend&#8217;s illness. It&#8217;s on drive, but I still have a good solid ten chapters of sound files to listen to and edit before it goes to mastering it for distribution. Who knows, I may never get that done, because writing the books comes first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a small hiatus due to a very close friend developing some serious medical issues, I&#8217;m back doing what I&#8217;m supposed to be doing&#8211;finishing book 2 of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries. The title has (almost) been locked in. It&#8217;s to be called Stray Trouble, and here&#8217;s the tentative cover for it. Right now, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,450],"tags":[141,451,441,442,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}