In case you’re wondering what I’m writing now that Miss Vulpe Book 3 is with the beta readers.

I was afraid that after the depths of my obsession with my latest manuscript and the whole cast of characters of Miss Vulpe, it would be hard to transition to writing something else. I had this other book idea, and it seemed fun, but I wasn’t sure I would be able to really get into it and truly enjoy it. I shouldn’t have worried. Cassandra Brings Disaster, my next novel, is practically writing itself.
The idea came to me a while ago, when a stroke of bad luck befell someone who had done something very shitty to me. It was uncanny, as if I had hexed this person. Reader, I had not hexed, cursed, or even wished the person ill. I had, indeed been very upset, but one can be upset without wishing something bad to happen, right? I don’t wish anyone ill, though I do, in extreme circumstances, choose to remove myself from their lives completely. I took no satisfaction in this person’s misfortune, but I couldn’t help but notice that what happened to them was so perfectly matched to their wrongdoing that someone could have suspected me of conjuring it. And this is how the idea for my next novel came about: Cassandra is a woman trying to run a business selling vintage clothes and is having all sorts of difficulties with people. At some point she notices that whenever someone wrongs her, something bad happens to this person. The coincidences are too numerous to ignore. Cassandra is horrified to realize she somehow unintentionally manifests misfortunes for those who mistreat her. She doesn’t want this type of retribution and feels terrible about some of the disasters she suspects she’s karmically connected to. She sets out to figure out how exactly she produces these disasters and to find a way to stop more bad things from happening to her antagonists. What would you do in a similar situation?