{"id":3279,"date":"2016-04-13T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2016-04-13T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:30:27","slug":"book-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"Book News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helloooo, people!<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I&#8217;d like to celebrate. Book 5 of the Marnie Baranuik Files is sitting at 58k words and I&#8217;ve got the rest of the book vaguely plotted out just enough to know where I&#8217;m going, though it&#8217;s cloudy enough to keep me interested in getting up at 4 AM to find out what happens next. I&#8217;ve never been an outliner. I&#8217;ve always been a pantser. If I know how a story is going to end, a lot of the pleasure flies out the window for me, and I lose interest in writing it. I&#8217;m also 1\/3 of the way into a murder mystery which <em>still<\/em> has no title. GAK! I hate writing without a title. Murder is my first love. (Whoa, that doesn&#8217;t sound right. Let me try again. Murder is my&#8230; nope, that&#8217;s just the truth. I love murder; the details, the forensics. Always have.) I&#8217;ve toyed with writing a stand alone mystery for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>I can now announce that while the mystery WILL stand alone and apart from the Marnie Baranuik universe, the detective will be familiar to readers of the MBF; his name is Constable Patrick Schenk, whom you might recognize as the Canadian cop barely tolerating Marnie&#8217;s antics in Last Impressions. The murder mystery will not contain any supernatural elements; it is pure suspense. Marnie will not make an appearance. In this tale, Schenk stands alone. \u00a0Will future mysteries feature a crossover? I don&#8217;t know. I haven&#8217;t considered that yet. Right now, my plan is to finish Marnie&#8217;s 5th book and the mystery, and see where I go from there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n-190x122.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n-60x39.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12510369_214176705585371_6693742276705965998_n.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;m excited to announce I&#8217;ll be signing copies of all four novels in the Marnie Baranuik Files. Locals in the Niagara Region of Ontario are welcome to pop by and see me between 12-4 pm at Chapters in the Fairview Mall. \u00a0 See you there!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-768x402.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-1024x536.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-190x99.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o-60x31.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/12473799_986282524789096_1098184854393385035_o.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helloooo, people! First of all, I&#8217;d like to celebrate. Book 5 of the Marnie Baranuik Files is sitting at 58k words and I&#8217;ve got the rest of the book vaguely plotted out just enough to know where I&#8217;m going, though it&#8217;s cloudy enough to keep me interested in getting up at 4 AM to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}