The 55 pages that I cut yesterday have put me back on the path. I know tomorrow’s chapter and the one after that, so the hard edit was the right move. But Merry has always written like this for me from the very beginning. I guess for me series characters are like any relationship the way you begin is the way you will end. What do I mean by that?

Anita came to be out of almost nowhere in the first short story. She was all muse-driven and speed. The first Merry book,  A KISS OF SHADOWS, was actually written… Read More