After spending five years doing sports journalism in northwestern Wisconsin, I developed a tribute community as a fictional setting for some of my stories, based on those experiences. Hope, Wisconsin is what I named it, and it’s an amalgamation of all my Wisconsin experiences.
I first visited hope in a graphic novel project I’m still working toward completion on, but is quite honestly on the back-burner at this point. It was a bit smaller and grittier than the version of Hope I’m envisioning for my new mystery novel series.
Although I’ve grown the size of Hope, it is still the same place I first envisioned when I started creating it about eight years ago. While I need it to be bigger to be an appropriate setting for a series of murder mysteries, it’s not growing that much; perhaps you could even say I’m just exploring the previously unexplored neighborhoods of Hope.
While there are not Orlando golf getaways in Hope, there are plenty of interesting folks and plenty of dark places where a human body could be stashed away. Just the perfect place for my mystery series.
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