Okay, it’s official, y’all. My next Konigsburg book, Fearless Love, has been contracted, and I couldn’t be happier! I don’t have much of anything to show you–no cover, no blurb, no release date. But it’s finished, and it’s coming.

For those of you who read Don’t Forget Me, Fearless Love is Joe LeBlanc’s story. Joe, you’ll remember, is the chef at The Rose restaurant. He’s from Louisiana, and he’s been a Top Chef around the country, but he has a problematic history that was touched on in Don’t Forget Me and will be greatly expanded in Fearless Love.

Joe’s heroine is a new girl in town, MG Carmody. MG is a singer/songwriter, although she’s somewhat out of practice at her avocation. She’s also having some problems with her avaricious Great Aunt Nedda, who wants to take over the farm MG inherited from her grandfather.

I had a wonderful time writing Fearless Love because it centers on two things I love–fine cooking and Texas music. As the weeks go on, I’ll try to share a few more details, and this Sunday I’ll post a few sentences on Six Sentence Sunday (although the text isn’t exactly final yet!). Anyway, if you haven’t visited Konigsburg yet, Fearless Love would be a good place to start. And if you have visited (thank you very much!), I hope you’ll stop back again.