My email program (melissa@melissasenate.com) linked to my website has the flu or something, because every email I send seems to end up in spam folders or doesn't go through at all! If you've emailed me and didn't receive a reply in over a week-ish, that's why!

I've received so many emails in the past few weeks asking when the second Abby Foote book is coming out. I'm so glad to know so many of you loved Abby and were looking forward to more of her and her nutty family and hot Ben and a fun mystery. There won't be another book for the forseeable future–I had planned to write another Abby book and my editor was on board, but when I sat down to plan a story, some other characters kept showing up and pushing Abby out the way. Those characters turned out to be Ruby and Stella, twin sisters and main characters of my next book, QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE MARRYING, which will be published the last week of May. Stella, a professional muse and face reader, thinks Ruby is making a BIG mistake by marrying her buttoned-up fiance, and off they go on a long and bumpy road trip to Las Vegas, where a wedding may or may not take place, but where some very other interesting and unexpected events DO take place. I may come back to Abby in the future. Who knows what 2008 will hold….

Hope YOUR 2008 is filled with all sorts of good things!

:) Melissa