Where there were eight plot ideas last time I made an entry here, now there is one. My editor, agent, and I have all agreed on the plot that we think you folks would appreciate most, coming after FAMILY TREE. It's currently titled DRIVING AT NIGHT, though I suspect that title will change once the marketing people at Doubleday get their hands on the proposal. It's the story of a woman and her two daughters ...

Actually, I won't say too much about it just yet, other than that it's a story of really nice people whose lives are blown apart by a single shocking event. I'm starting to flesh it out, developing the characters, figuring out where the plot will go and how. This fleshing out will go on for a while. I have to get to know my characters before I can make them work for me. Uh, make that, for US.

And since it's raining here -- yet again -- what better to do than to think about people who may be in a place where there's a little sun?