We needed more murder!
Before Rocky Mountain Mayhem (book 2) was published, as Robbyn and I would be out and about at book signings, promotional parties, etc., when someone would ask us about the second book we’d always say something to the effect of, “Same four friends, different vacation, different mystery. No murder. We don’t want to kill off someone in every book. Our friends would never go on vacation with us!”
Unlike Getaway Girlz which took us a year and a half to write, we wrote book two in megasuperfast overdrive. We had a deadline, darn it, and we were not going to miss it! Two days before going to print I was feverishly rereading, re-editing, reformatting and suddenly I was re-ALIZING something horrible.
I closed my cherry red laptop and fumbled the phone as I called Robbyn.
“We’re missing something! The story’s not right!”
Robbyn remained calm on the other end of the line. “I know. I know. I’ve been thinking the same thing.”
We talked for a bit and it was settled. There wasn’t enough mystery in our mystery.
An emergency all-day happy hour was in order, which at times was less happy and more agony, but we figured it out. We worked through the rough spots and found just the right places to add more thrill and suspense.
It’s paid off. Now we’re hearing from our Fanz that the second book is even better than the first!
Of course it is…
We added MURDER!