Edward Kelsey Moore's newest novel is The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues.From his Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: Did you know when you wrote the first Supremes book that you'd be writing another one?--Marshal Zeringue
A: I knew that there was more to the story of the three main characters of The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat when I finished it and I hoped to return to them.
After my first novel was published, I began working on another, not-Supremes-related novel. But ideas for what became The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues kept interrupting my work on that book. I decided to write the book that wanted to be written.
Q: How do you think your characters changed from the first book to the second?
A: During the five years since the end of the first novel and the start of the second, the main characters have adapted to the altered lives they were left with after the events of the first book.
Odette is the survivor of a serious illness now and she has fully accepted the strange inheritance she received from her mother. Clarice has the career she had always dreamed of. Barbara Jean is with the love of her life.
However, in the second book, they are forced to...[read on]