Twenty-Two Years and Counting
BONES FROM THE SKY is now available BONES FROM THE SKY, A Raine Stockton Mystery, was published on September 24, 2026. That makes 18 books in the Raine Stockton series. That in itself is astonishing. How are people still reading these books? How can they still be wanting more? But what really threw me for a loop was when I realized I had been writing this same series for 22 years. 22 years with the same characters, the same small town, the same dog. If you had asked me before I did the math, I would have sworn the series was no more than ten years old, and I was proud it had hung on that long. But now I have people telling me they read the first book in high school! Surely I was in high school when I wrote the first book? But I guess not. For days after the 22-years realization I walked around in a state of shock, wondering how this could have happened. How could time have gotten away from me in such a way? More ...