Ding Ding Ding! Spaz haz Vicki Pettersson News!
June 2, 2011 in Book News
THANK YOU to Kristin over at My Bookish Ways for breaking this story to us, we had no idea! With NEON GRAVEYARD marking the end of Vicki Pettersson’s Signs of the Zodiac series, it has left many of us fans frantically saying “What next?!”
GOOD NEWS! In 2012 Ms. Pettersson will be releasing her new series called the Celestial Blues Trilogy! Below is the information on CELESTIAL BLUES she provides thus far, taken from her site under the FAQ section:
About Celestial Blues:
1. So what can you tell us about the Celestial Blues series?
Celestial Blues is a dark fantasy trilogy featuring a whole new world and cast of characters. Unlike my lone UF heroine, Joanna Archer, Celestial Blues features a partnership between a supernatural private eye and a rockabilly reporter with a real nose for trouble. Despite the narrative shift, rest assured that the dark worldbuilding, the noir Vegas setting, and the imaginary hairpin turns are all still firmly in place.
It’s set to debut in 2012 and I can’t wait to share it with you.
2. How did you come up with the idea for the Celestial Blues series?
I’ve learned over the years that I don’t like to write something unless I feel I absolutely must. Thus I tend to live with ideas for a long time. If they keep knocking at my subconscious and refuse to leave, then other ideas start building up around them. At some point they gain enough weight to merit my full attention.
However, I also write for freebies.
So in the spring of ’05, right before I sold THE SCENT OF SHADOWS, I entered a writing contest to win an ARC (advanced reader’s copy) of a book on Kelley Armstrong’s site. The only parameters of the contest were that 1) it had to have supernatural elements and 2) it couldn’t be more than 1500 words in length. It took me over two weeks to perfect those 1500 words, which I then sent in with great anticipation … and then watched, brokenhearted, as someone else won the ARC.
Yet I came away with a story idea that wouldn’t quit, so even though Kelley. Didn’t. Pick. Me. (Ahem.) – I didn’t exactly lose. It’s true what they say: time and energy spent writing is never truly lost. That early supernatural idea eventually combined with my love for both hardboiled crime fiction and epic romances to fuel Celestial Blues. So thanks, Kelley! I am thrilled to bring my readers Celestial Blues, and am having a blast creating it.
Are we happy our what?! As we get more information we’ll report back to you. We are crossing our fingers that it will be early 2012 so we don’t have to wait too long!
