Adding To The Circle – Sequel to Soldiers – Update

Waiting for the editing on Adding to the Circle, and filling my time with the 5 amazing grandsons! Today was the kickball game with the kids against the adults… We lost (by too many points than our old egos were able to handle well!) It was intense and hard played, and so much fun! Camping trip on Wednesday in Hershey, Pa., and a slow journey down the coast and ending up in South Carolina where two of the boys will be living for the next few years. I’ve already started the plot for a book that takes place down there… I’ll be able to work on One Square Mile during the driving…. Hoping that your summer brings you some moments of Joy!

We’ve been on vacation and doing lots of fun things with the grandsons. On Tuesday David, and two of the grandsons (Ryan David and Josh) and I were crossing from Ocracoke Is. to Cedar Is. on the North Carolina Ferry System. That leg of the journey was just over two hours and gave me lots of time to sit outside with the sea breeze and watch for dolphins with the boys. At one point my overactive imagination developed a plot for a book that had an opening scene on a ferry and a stranger pushes a woman overboard (of course she is rescued by the handsome pilot! But I digress…LOL). The 14 yo grandson, Ryan, asked me if I had ever written a book about the Outer Banks since I’ve spent so much time there and I enjoy the area so much. The following is a dialogue that happened between Ryan and me:
ME: A s a matter of fact I haven’t but I was just imagining a scene for one.
RD: Really? What was in the scene?
ME: Well, the cars are driving onto the ferry, just like we did, and the pilot of the ferry notices a woman in a red Jeep who looks very upset. At some point the pilot decides to look for the woman to make sure she is OK. He can see her Jeep from his wheelhouse and he heads down the stairs to find the woman just as a stranger is wrestling the woman to the edge of the ferry and then he throws her over the side. What do you think?
RD: Uma, that’s just like every adult mystery novel!
ME: Really? (with raised eyebrows and a wounded ego) What about if she falls to the bottom of the ocean and becomes a mermaid?
RD:Uma (exasperated)! That is just like every kid’s book these days!
ME: (Snort and a raised eyebrow!)
I still think my scene has merit….