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SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 EVENT: The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten. WHERE: Wherever books are sold across America WHAT TO Get: Sunglasses, insect repellant, a flotation device, suntan lotion, cheez-doodles, more-large towel, fire extinguisher, baseball bat, lip balm, monkey leash, sixty three pieces of chewing gum, and one canister of oxygen (don’t ask). Hey, it’s a Stephanie Plum novel!
Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly: Author One-to-One
In this Amazon special, we delivered mutually blockbuster authors Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly and asked them to interview every other. Locate out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say concerning their characters, writing process, and extra. Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. Read on to see Michael Connelly's questions for Janet Evanovich, or turn the tables to see what Evanovich asked Connelly.  Connelly: Let's get the business out of the way. What's Finger Lickin' Fifteen, the new Stephanie Plum novel, all concerning and what delivered you to the story?
Evanovich: I wanted to do a book this featured Stephanie's wheelman, Lula. Lula is one of my favorite characters for the reason that she's pulled herself up from hard times and now is just extra of everything. Fifteen opens together with Lula witnessing a crime, and it all gets complicated afterwards this. We're talking concerning barbecue gone bad, cross-dressing firemen, dancing hot dogs, etc. Connelly: You strike me as an author who is involved in each aspect of the publishing of her work. But the output--at least two solid novels a year--suggests otherwise, this you delegate all over the situate so this you can focus on writing high-excellence stuff. So which is it? (And if your answer is this you do indeed delegate, how the heck do you study to do this?) Evanovich: You reach a point in your career where the business side threatens to eclipse writing time and you either delegate or power back. I delegate everything but the writing. My daughter and her staff manage the website, the fan mail, the book tour, the author publicity and marketing. My son is my agent and finance officer and chief problem solver. When no one else can solve the problem it gets dumped on my son's desk! I oversee all aspects, but I've had to study not to micro-manage. Connelly: We have an author friend in common-- Robert Crais--who has steadfastly refused to sell or option his series character Elvis Cole to Hollywood. On the other hand, I've flogged Harry Bosch up and down the studio strip. (Interestingly enough, to the same result--no movies made!) Where do you stand together with Stephanie and will we ever see her on the big or small screen? Evanovich: Jeez Louise, I wish I knew the answer to this one. TriStar owns the Plum franchise together with Wendy Finerman attached as producer, and Wendy has been trying to get this sucker off the ground for fifteen years. Probably somewhere in the vicinity of three million people read every of my Plum books, but for whatever reason, TriStar has yet to greenlight the project. Connelly: Speaking of this L.A. business, do you remember when we first met? Since you conveniently put numbers in your titles, it is simple for me to remember this it was fourteen years ago in L.A. I bet you don't remember the name of the restaurant, which sadly is no longer there. But, luckily, we're still here and my memory of this lunch is important to me for the reason that at the time we had probably sold a hundred books between us (not counting romance novels). Evanovich: What I remember is this what I consider to be my graduating class (you, Crais, and Jan Burke) would get mutually at all the mystery conferences, and you would be our fearless leader! Connelly: Did you recognize this in my much recent novel a very bad man plans to use a Janet Evanovich novel to get shut to an unsuspecting, potential victim? It's scary stuff--the plan, not the Evanovich novel. Have you reached a stage where your work is part of the terrain and gets these sorts of little nods here and there? Evanovich: Each now and then my name or one of my character names pops up and it's usually in the work of a friend. I believe it's fun and I always reciprocate...so exist in fear.
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