Dear Reader,

Wow, what a year it’s been! As 2025 draws to a close I look back on some great and some not so great events in my life. I told you in my last newsletter that I lost a dear friend to cancer this year. Bobby wasn’t just my best friend; she was like a mother to me. I found, after she got diagnosed, that I just couldn’t write. That’s never happened to me before. Anyway, after she passed away, I felt really restless. I wasn’t writing so I decided to go to Egypt. I have wanted to go to Egypt since I was a teenager and I started to think, if not now, then WHEN? Losing a dear friend does remind you that life is both precious and uncertain.

I had a wonderful time in Egypt. I toured the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum which is amazing, and has an entire floor for all of King Tut’s burial treasures. Poor Tut himself is still in his tomb, a very blackened mummy. He was too frail to move so all his fancy stuff is in the museum while he’s naked but for his wrappings being gawped at by tourists. Not what he intended I’m sure!

As I toured Cairo and floated down the Nile, stopping at the Old Cataract Hotel where Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile, I began to feel stirrings of a story. It always feels magical when a story starts to take shape and characters begin to intrude on my waking moments demanding to be heard. This time it felt like such a gift.

The story? I’ve got a couple of ideas, actually, but the one I’m already working on is going to be the next book in the Vampire Knitting Club series. It’s going to be set partly in Egypt (those of you who’ve read Crochet and Cauldrons will see the connection.) An ancient Egyptian witch named Meritamun (Meri to her modern friends) calls on Lucy for help and warns that Lucy’s father is in great danger. What can Lucy do but heed the call?

I’ll let you know when I have a publication date. I do have a working title. Mazes and Mummies.

I hope as the year comes to an end you have a wonderful holiday season and my very best wishes for 2026.

Happy reading and lots of love,

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