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Just wanted to let everyone know that I slept well last night. No bad dreams, in fact, no dreams at all that I remember. After last night’s trauma that suited me just fine. I woke up refreshed and feeling much better, though since all my 11 pages were Anita holding her sweetie’s hand in the hospital it was still traumatic, or at least hard.

Here’s a question, guys. I got very emotional writing the scene where we had someone dies in the book and I had to go to some hard places to find the emotion to write the scene, so I posted and talked about it without thinking through how to handle it after wards. Twitter is especially bad for that, so easy, so quick, and then its out there. I told you Anita lost someone she cared about, but not who. I don’t want to give away what amounts to a rather big surprise for the June book, Bullet. But I also have sympathy with those who are fretting about who has died. I also am finding it difficult to blog and tweet as freely because I have to think if I want to mention who is in the scene with Anita. If I mention someone then you know that’s not who died.

Here’s the question. Do you guys just want me to talk about the characters as I would have before I spilled the trauma, by that I mean mention who’s in a scene with Anita if I would have mentioned it before I told you someone died? Or do you prefer that I withhold all names and leave it totally in suspense? I will listen to majority vote, but I will decide what eventually feels right. I’m still a little shell shocked from all of it, so not sure how I feel. It didn’t help matters to learn that one of my favorite authors, Robert B. Parker, died today. He created the Spenser series which is the literary father of Anita on the mystery side of her family. So not only have we lost Mr. Parker, but his characters, including, Spenser are no more. I find that thought very sad. So, from fictional death to real death, and other drama that doesn’t need to be mentioned here, I’m just not sure how to handle the fictional part.