The Next Dakota Stevens Mystery is Done

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If you only knew what a hell­ish year this has been, and what a *mir­a­cle* it is that I fin­ished this nov­el.

IT’S DONE.

After 90,000 words, 6 drafts, end­less pol­ish­ing, and count­less tweaks, spell-checks and fact-checks, the next Dako­ta Stevens mys­tery, A Truth Stranger Than Fic­tion, is fin­ished.

The nov­el will be avail­able for pre-order by Decem­ber 22, and will be released on Jan­u­ary 1 or 2.

The rea­son for the Jan­u­ary release is so I can get a full year (2015) with the book as a new release—for mar­ket­ing and pub­lic­i­ty pur­pos­es. This was the pub­lic­i­ty com­pa­ny’s advice, and I am going to fol­low it.

Besides, as one read­er (a self-described fan­girl) point­ed out to me, it’s good that it won’t be avail­able dur­ing Christ­mas because you prob­a­bly would­n’t get any­thing done until you fin­ished it.

Maybe I’m prej­u­diced, but I think this might be the best Dako­ta nov­el of the three. But I’ll let you be the judge. In Jan­u­ary.

This will be my last update about the book until it’s up for pre-order on Ama­zon. At that time, I’ll have a blurb about the book. There might even be a book trail­er.

Thank you for your loy­al sup­port and encour­age­ment.

Sin­cere­ly,

Chris

By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.

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