 
'THE MYSTERIOUS HEIR' INSIDER NEWS This book was a sheer pleasure to write, the characters just swam onto the page. There was one problem. I got carried away with describing the rain on the first page... pages. I didn't realize it until my editor, Hilary Ross, called me up and asked if I had an umbrella. So there were originally five pages of it. I wanted everyone to see London in the rain! But on second thought I decided she was right, less was more. (Or would you have liked to read about how much more rain there was that day, what it felt like and how the people of London felt about having it fall?? I still have those opening pages around somewhere. They make my astral twin Edward Bulwer-Lytton's classic "it was a dark and stormy night" look like a walk in the park - on a rainy day, of course.) |
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