Don't worry, Arcane lives on in ILLUSION TOWN in which you will discover the Midnight Carnival -- otherwise known as the Lost Museum of Arcane. And the dust bunny's name is Virgil
I don't have plans to do another contemporary Dark Legacy book or a Ladies of Lantern Street historical story.
I am no longer using paranormal elements in my contemporary JAK woman-in-jeopardy suspense novels. However I am still having a lot of fun with the paranormal vibe -- and the Coppersmith family as well as Arcane -- in my Jayne Castle titles. The latest is SIREN'S CALL which features a descendant of the Coppersmith clan.
For now, my contemporaries, written under my Jayne Ann Krentz name (my married name) will focus on straight-up woman-in-jeopardy style romantic-suspense -- SECRET SISTERS, for example. However, Arcane will continue in my futuristic Harmony books written under my Jayne Castle name. (Little known factoid -- Jayne Castle actually happens to be my birth name).
Ahem. Where was I? Oh, yeah: Harmony/Arcane. If you enjoy those books you may be interested to know that in July a new adventure begins on Harmony with ILLUSION TOWN. This is Las Vegas on Harmony only way more weird.
Yes, I do have a regular publishing schedule (Jan. for my Krentz titles, April for Quick titles and August for my Castle titles). You can get details on my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/JayneAnnKrentz ) And, yes, I am currently writing my historicals in the Victorian era. Not sure when I'll get back to the Regency or Medieval eras. But who knows?
I have often messed around with that element in my stories and I continue to do so with the futuristic paranormal romances that I write under my Jayne Castle name. In those books you will also meet several of the descendants of the Arcane Society. For example, Sedona Snow's niece, Arizona Snow, is the heroine of THE HOT ZONE (Jayne Castle). Currently my historicals (Amanda Quick) and my contemporaries (JAK) are straight romantic-suspense. I love that genre, with or without the psychic stuff. As far as I am concerned it is a genre of its own, one in which the suspense and the romance must move together. A turning point in one causes a turning point in the other. Hero and heroine must work together to survive.
I'm not sure when I'll get back to the Ladies of Lantern Street. For now I am having a lot of fun writing straight romantic-suspense in my Amanda Quick Victorian world. (Glad to hear you enjoyed Otherwise Engaged, by the way. Between you and me, I pretty much built that whole story around that interesting fan weapon the heroine carries.) But I never say never and if you have followed my career for a while you know that I have always liked to flirt with the paranormal. So stay tuned...
The answer is, no, I don't have a problem moving between my three worlds -- but I honestly don't know why I don't have a problem. All I can tell you is that I think it speaks to the importance of the fictional landscape of the novel. Historicals (which I write as Amanda Quick) automatically command a more formal tone. The futuristics (which I write as Jayne Castle) just naturally lend themselves to over-the-top-scenarios. And contemporaries demand a more modern voice. I don't know how to explain it. The shift just happens naturally. Probably the same way readers shift gears when they move between various landscapes. We (writers and readers) are all in this together.
Thanks for your interest in the side characters in my Amanda Quick book, THE PAID COMPANION. No, I never wrote any "companion" stories for the other companions but I like to think they all did very well for themselves. They were, after all, very smart, very determined women.
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