In between snacking on chocolate bunnies over the Easter weekend, I also started working on the revisions for Elemental Assassin #4. My editor really enjoyed what I did with the book, so the revisions were fairly light.

There’s no title yet and no firm release date for book 4, although from what I’ve been told so far, it looks like the book will come out in spring 2011 — perhaps May — with book 5 to come out later in the fall — perhaps October. We shall see …

In the meantime, my editor asked me to write a brief description of the book to help the folks at Pocket come up with the back cover copy. Here’s what I sent her, so consider this a little teaser about the storyline. Note: This contains a few minor spoilers, so consider yourself warned.

An assassin has come to Ashland to murder me. The irony is that I’m a killer myself – Gin Blanco, the renowned assassin known as the Spider. I’ve had a target on my back ever since I declared war on Mab Monroe, the ruthless head of the Ashland underworld. Mab wants me dead in the worst kind of way, which is why she’d hired Elektra LaFleur to come to town and exterminate me – and the other assassin just might be able to do it. LaFleur is just as ruthless as I am and has electrical elemental magic that’s the equal of my own Ice and Stone power. 

Complicating matters is the fact that Mab’s kidnapped an innocent young girl who’s a friend of a friend. Finding her is priority number one. Surviving is a close second, though. Good thing I’ve got sexy businessman Owen Grayson on my side, along with Detective Bria Coolidge. The only problem is that Bria doesn’t realize that I’m her long-lost big sister, Genevieve Snow. And what my baby sister doesn’t know just may get us both killed …

Sounds pretty good, huh? 😉

Tags: Elemental Assassin series, On Writing