The Series Thing

When I was first drafting the book that later became THE COLD BETWEEN, I wasn’t thinking about a series.

I was thinking about a sequel. I had a character arc in the book—initially called ALIBI, and those of you who’ve read TCB can guess which part of the original survived—that wanted resolution. I had a very rough draft of a sequel when I started querying. But as a result of querying, the two books got folded together and became what was eventually published.

When THE COLD BETWEEN went on ...