To Dance with the Devil

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Happy families make for happy writers but fairly boring characters (in our opinion). So we have saddled Celia with a formidable amount of family misery that (thankfully) neither of us had to endure. So in the interest of a better book, these happy writers will once again drag our poor character into the fray.

Every book is a major endeavor and involves the efforts of a group of talented people working behind the scenes to bring it from an idea in the author’s head to the product you see on the page or screen. We thank our team, including our agents, Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency and Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House, our brilliant editor, Melissa Ann Singer, and the amazing staff at Tor/Forge. You guys rock, and make us look good in the process. We appreciate it.

I dressed carefully for the meeting. The setting was casual; since we were currently officeless, Dawna had agreed to meet Ms. Abigail Andrews, a potential client, for lunch at La Cocina. Unfortunately for me, my business partner had bailed on the meeting at the last possible moment, with what seemed to me to be a fairly flimsy excuse. This was just one of a whole number of things we were going to have to have a serious talk about in the very near future. I get that Dawna’s busy getting ready for her wedding. I understand that she’s distracted. But to not even have done the basic research on Ms. Andrews or filled out a client intake form was just sloppy. Dawna is better than that. She was better than that the first week she had started as my receptionist, years ago.

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