December, 2011

Dear readers,

Greetings after a long and notable silence!   It’s been a devil of year and a half for PJ and I with some daunting family health issues that have kept us very preoccupied and unable to maintain any semblance of reliable correspondence via newsletter or website.  With those issues still looming in our lives, we have decided to disable our direct email link and newsletter, because we just can’t keep up.  But please keep checking in with pjtracy.net for new updates, which we will post on the website directly from now on, and hopefully on a more regular basis when things cool down here. 

Good news -- the sixth MONKEEWRENCH book will be out in 2012!  Our working title is RIDING THE RAZOR, which we thought was terrific and spooky, but it wasn’t met with much enthusiasm by our editors, so the title is still a mystery. 

On another front, we have also optioned an edgy, humorous, Christmas-themed screenplay (not a single murder in it!) to Double Nickel Productions – the wonderful and talented folks who produced GRAN TORINO with Clint Eastwood.  We are also working on the novelization of the script, which we hope will become a Christmas classic, because after all the murder we’ve been living with for the past ten years, we wanted some magic.  Who doesn’t want a little magic nowadays?

We have also inked an option deal for a TV or cable series based on the MONKEEWRECH books, which would be so incredibly thrilling if it comes to fruition (which is always a long shot in Hollywood).  And even if it doesn’t, it’s still fun to think about the casting possibilities!

All best wishes for a wonderful 2012 from PJ Tracy, and hope you’re all happy and well.