![]() ![]() It’s sort of a giveaway that he’s going to be the villain. “How did you know that Bugs did it?” My answer was, “It was always Bugs!” I mean his name is Bugs Meany. ![]() As a child, I wanted to be Encyclopedia Brown although I realize now he really wasn’t much of a detective because it was always Bugs Meany. I’ve gotten that question more than once in my life. Before I started Truly Devious, I made a list not only of all my favorite detectives-who would be Stevie’s favorites, too-but a chart of all possible motives for a crime.ĭid you ever want to be a real detective? I was a big Agatha Christie reader as a kid. The Hound of the Baskervilles has a very special place in my heart. Maybe there’s an aversion to doing the thing that’s closest to us, that means the most. I don’t know why I had never written a mystery before because my passion really is mysteries. So no more mystery series but perhaps more mysteries? ![]() I would ask, “How do you know it’s haunted?” and the answers were “Oh, there’s a cold spot in the room,” or “The door opens on its own.” These were really lame ghostings. It started from a different place, which was, ‘What if there were better quality ghosts?’ I had taken some historical tours of London and everything was haunted. You had written another trilogy-Shades of London-but it wasn’t a mystery. All my future mysteries will be contained in one book. In the third book absolutely everything is resolved.īut I will never do this again. It’s against the rule of mysteries to try to write one as a series, so I had to have a delivery in each of the first two books. I wrote an entire file of answers and explanations before I started writing. But I had charts and graphs and I drew a lot of maps. “Why?” is the question that drives the whole machine. Yes, absolutely everything about this was planned. Did you have the whole arc of the story outlined before you began? It’s commendable how complex this story is and how you managed to churn out three books in two years. Turning now to 2020, you’ll start next year with the release of the conclusion to your Truly Devious trilogy, which your fans have to be very excited about. ![]() But we all-me, John, Lauren-feel 100% behind it. In fact, it doesn’t bear much resemblance to the book at all. It’s significantly different than the book but they’ve improved it. What’s your review, and your co-authors? Is the film faithful to the novel? Google alerts and Twitter are how I learn everything. I assume it will turn up in a Google alert. There was a party after the premiere at a diner and the carpet in the entrance said “Let It Snow.” I have no idea who puts these things together. That wasn’t the most impressive thing, though. Did you snag one of those for yourself?Ībsolutely. On Twitter you said that there was some excellent swag for those who attended the premiere: holiday-themed skull caps with pom-poms. But as soon as it went over to Netflix, things happened very quickly. Then it was optioned by Universal and the producer who optioned it for them wound up moving to Netflix, so it was a long process. It was optioned by someone initially, I don’t remember who. The novel came out more than a decade ago. We all saw it two to three weeks ago, also in Los Angeles, because Netflix wanted us to be able to talk about it and they wanted to make sure we liked it, which we all did. Was this your first time seeing the film? ![]()
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