I'm a huge fan of Michael Crichton books (Timeline, Prey.... He's the Jurassic Park guy), so I thought I'd try my hand at a sci fi thriller with an undetectable alien invasion theme.  The trick (beyond figuring out how to vanquish the aliens, of course) is creating that marvelous spiraling plot structure where several seemingly unrelated threads all wind into one dramatic conclusion. Crichton makes it look easy. It isn't. 

It's a major departure from anything I've done before, so I can't rely on all of my acquired skills. Snappy dialogue doesn't really drive this kind of drama in the way I'm used to.

The working title is Echoes of the Incursion, and this is the draft cover design. Like many authors, I like to make one of these up and pin it to my desktop as encouragement to get the job done. Because.... shiny! I want that beauty to be real!

This will likely take me until the end of 2025 because I have a preschooler underfoot until the fall. In the meantime, I'm outlining, and diagramming, and researching odd things like phlebotomy, sound engineering, and municipal government structures. If you ever want to boggle your mind, check the search history of a writer friend. It's all over the web!