Sequel

I am now working on a sequel to Rescue Me.

Remember it?

My hope is that it will be good enough to be published in the After Happily Ever line at Turquoise Morning Press. This signature line of books tells the tales of what happens after 'I do'. Here are the submission guidelines for it.

http://www.turquoisemorningpressbookstore.com/collections/after-happily-ever

But the problem is this: I have an affection for my characters. I worked really hard to get Riley and Amy to a good HEA (Happily Ever After). But to make another story go, I have to create a problem to be resolved. After 16 years of marriage, I ought to know about problems and resolutions, right?

Kroger hit-ons NOT withstanding.

The best I get from my husband on that is a wisecrack about my voluntary red hair.

So, I think and write. And sigh because I hate to beat up on these people. But writing two hundred pages of them sitting in rocking chairs drinking lemonade is going to bore the reader to death. How many times can one describe the taste of the drink? The creak of the white painted wood of the chairs? The sun setting serenely beyond the porch?

It reminds me of an old Itchy and Scratchy show on The Simpsons, probably from the late twentieth century. After watching the violent thinly veiled homage to Tom and Jerry, Maggie (the baby) hits her dad with a mallet. This has a great take-off scene from Psycho as well. Anyway, Marge, the mom, launches a massive campaign to stop the cartoon violence on Itchy and Scratchy. She wins, and the cat and mouse then just sit in the rockers with lemonade. It's so boring that all the kids actually go outside and (gasp) play.

I found a clip of this show with a foreign voice-over. Do I love this? More than words can say.

http://www.4shared.com/video/xNnjEx12/02x09_Itchy__Scratchy__Marge_n.html

So, moral of the story. Rocking chairs and lemonade makes a nice picture. But a TERRIBLE plot.

Let the maiming begin....