Hello, lovely person who has already voted and requested "e-book outtakes". I appreciate the feedback!
And, since I'm up with what I hope is not the beginnings of a cold, I'll give you the first insider's snippet right now as a thank you for your input.
When Keri and I were writing DIRECTOR'S CUT--our personal favorite of the books by the way--the LA Times Reporter, Dan Harper, had a much larger role. We decided that he didn't work in that capacity, then in any capacity and we killed him entirely; removed his character from the book. In his place, we created a purveyor of Hollywood memorabilia, Carsten Gerrard, who turned out to be a really fun element with which to work. As we wove Carsten into Maddie's world, we realized that we did need Dan, just not the Dan with which we'd begun. So we brought him back from the dead in a smaller but stronger role.
Neither of us could imagine the book without both men now, and we're really glad we stuck with the process long enough to get it right. Writing character-driven fiction is much like trying to hold a jellyfish under one finger, but sometimes that squirming and wrangling all turns out in the end.
You know, Dan Harper never really did thank us properly for raising him from the dead. A bottle of wine or three would have been nice. Thankless fictional people - pah.
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