New Novel 2019

Since completing the Roswell trilogy, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html, I have been making notes for a new novel. I first had the idea for the new novel while I was finishing Roswell Redeemed. As is always the case with my development style, a lot of the preparation has been mental, envisioning the characters, the setting and the plot etc. I have outlined those in note form; I have decided on a starting point for the narrative and have ideas about where the storyline can progress from there. As usual, I have not planned the entire novel from start to finish. No doubt I will hit some "walls" as I did with Roswell, but I made it over them back then and I'm confident I can do so this time. This novel will be similar in some ways to the Roswells in that I intend it to be historical and once more deviate from a given point in the past into an alternate history where something that is different to the real world changes everything for the subsequent future. In Roswell this starting point was July 1947. In this new novel it will be earlier. I've not pinpointed it, but I am currently looking at the end, or close to the end, of the Great War or World War One. The story will be strongly centred on the element of espionage. For research I have been reading and watching a lot of real life spy stories, such as biographies of the Cambridge spies, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e36KMyp-GDE. This area of research began during the writing of the Roswell trilogy because I originally intended the Julian Spencer character to be a spy; but I soon realized he did not have the temperament for such a self-disciplined proclivity. One of my new characters for the new novel most certainly does. I have chosen the working title of The Obscurati Chronicles. This was what I called a series of sketches which eventually formed into an abortive novel a few years ago, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2010/02/obscurati-chronicles-part-1.html. If you read these sketches you will see that I have already incorporated some of their material into Roswell. How much of the remainder I will use for this new novel, I can't be sure. My next step is to write a sample for free publication on Ben's Bookcase, as I did with the Roswells, for example see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/12/roswell-revealed-sample-first-chapter.html. I wasn't sure whether to do this again, but I have decided that I should. A sample chapter both interests potential future readers and morally commits me to completing the work. I am not sure how long this next step will take, but bookmark this page for upcoming developments. It is interesting and encouraging to look back at the post I made when I first came up with the idea for the Roswell trilogy, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2015/05/aurora-new-novel.html. In a couple of years, will I look back at this post with the same hindsight?