Your newest book, "Mother: Settling The Score" is a little different from your previous work.
Jane: A little. The stories we eventually decided to call the "Greenleaf Moms" series were all set in a small town somewhere off the beaten path. Bucholic and old-fashioned and almost wholesome.
Tad: Kind of "Mayberry." But with tits and dicks.
Jane: Right? The women were all homemakers or teachers or preacher's wives. With "Settling The Score" we decided that Mom should get her degree and move uptown. And in the process of urbanizing them the characters got a little harder-edged. So there's intrigue and ambition and avarice and revenge.
Tad: Kind of "Dynasty." But with tits and dicks.
And you're working on a sequel?
Tad: Right now we're calling it "Mother: Hostile Makeover."
Jane: Not a sequel as much as a second book with similar characters and themes. There were one or two characters in the Greenleaf books that recurred from one story to the next, and that might happen here, too. But it's mainly new characters and a new location. Claire Henderson in "Settling The Score" was a lawyer - sort of - and Lauren Chase in "Hostile Makeover" is a businesswoman. And then there could be one more, about a research psychologist.
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