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• Glad to hear you are still working on the Chameleon book.

• Thanks, Jane! I actually submitted it to several publishers. Two of them wanted to publish it, and two more said they were on the fence. I decided to pass. I set the book aside while I finished up 'Where Secrets Reside'. Then I made some good revisions to this book, adding about 10,000 words to it, gave it to my editor for polishing, and now I believe it's finally ready to make its debut. It's been a labor of love.

• If it's so close to your heart it's a good idea to choose your publisher very carefully. Good luck!

• So pleased you accepted the tour Susan. I found reading your answers really interesting. It is always fun to see how other writers work and what makes them decide to write what they do.

  Gangs is a difficult one and I admire you for including them in your story. Research must have been difficult. My only experience of gangs came in LA when working with a record label who had a lot of rap acts and we were held up by one of the bands (gang members) and had a SWAT team rescue us all....then we had a gang related drive-by shooting soon after - shot out the front of the record label and recording studio windows late at might when we were recording there!

  Witness protection is something which has always fascinated me; how do you leave your whole world behind to create a new one where everyone has a history except you? Trying to recall your new 'background and past,' must be a nightmare and especially with kids - can they ever be trusted to keep to the script?

  I wish you much success with all your books and for this in particular. Cannot wait. I will visit the other bloggers as well. Thanks for accepting the tour.

• Thanks, Jane! It was a fun post to write. It must have been terrifying getting attacked by those gangs in LA. Thanks for sharing that. I like doing research and learning new things for the books I write. When I lived in bigger cities (Denver, Minneapolis, and Oklahoma City), I heard lots of news reports about gang activity. I assumed that gangs were only in the big cities. Unfortunately, that's not the case. That was a big surprise to me. Like you, I've been fascinated with witness protection, too. Maybe that's because of my interest in psychology and sociology. It was interesting writing this story and trying to see how someone might cope with the anxiety of giving up everything to survive.

  I loved reading your blog post, too. Good luck with your books.

• Susan I love your posts as you know and I try and pop in when I have a quiet moment to read them carefully. I have never studied psychology or Sociology - think I would have loved them - but when one bumps into the variety of people in one's own lifetime one suddenly becomes aware (meeting different peoples and in different situations abroad for example) that basically we all want the same things from life; just some of us go about it differently and without any thought for others. WP must be the ultimate escape from yourself, your past and in a way the future...our future is based on our past and if you have to forget it and start afresh at, say 50, what a nightmare and how do you make a future when everything you would have made can't be the same as it might have been because now you are someone else. Complicated and so interesting. We all think we'd like to reinvent ourselves now and again, but not like that I am sure. Thanks for the good wishes and for your comments. :)

• Loved this, Susan - the notorious blog hop is eventually going to take in every writer in the world as it makes its pyramid progress through cyberspace! Good luck with Liars Games, a fine piece of work.

• Thanks, Frances! I hope you'll like the book. This blog tour was a great idea.

• Oh wow!!! Thank you SOOOO much Susan, very kind of you sweetie! :D xx