I finished The Lovely and the Lost in less than a day and I loved it!
I sold THE LOVELY AND THE LOST in a one-book deal, which means that I wrote it to stand alone, but have series potential, meaning that if sales were good enough that my publisher wanted me to write a sequel, I would be totally excited to do so and have some ideas about where it might go, the new characters you might meet (including NEW DOGS), and so on. But I have also been an author long enough to know that sales are not always what I want them to be and that no sequel is guaranteed, so I ended THE LOVELY AND THE LOST in such a way that I was satisfied with the ending, even if I never get to return to those characters and that world.
Right now, I have three more books scheduled to come out:
NOVEMBER, 2019: DEADLY LITTLE SCANDALS. This is the LITTLE WHITE LIES sequel. It involves a secret society of Southern Belles, cliff-jumping, a summer at the lake, three generations of high society secrets, complicated family relationships, four mysteries, and one dead body.
NOVEMBER, 2020, plus or minus a few months: a SUPER SECRET PROJECT that I have already written. I am obsessed with it. I think it’s the best idea I’ve ever had, and I had more fun writing it than I could possibly explain. I cannot tell you any more than that until the deal is announced.
ONE MORE BOOK: My 2020 book was sold as part of a two-book deal. The second book is currently undecided. It might be a sequel to the 2020 book, or tied to one of my other projects, or it may be a new book altogether--it depends on sales for various books, the market, and a whole host of other factors!