How long did it take you to write each of the Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries: Consigned to Death, Deadly Appraisal, and Antiques to Die For?
Consigned to Death took me about eight months. The second Josie Prescott mystery, Deadly Appraisal, took me ten months. This is not a good thing—At that point, I crossed my fingers that each new book didn’t take two months longer than the previous one. Antiques to Die For did—sort of. I got off on too many wrong tangents. Then, at my editor’s suggestion, I wrote a synopsis. What a great idea! It was incredibly difficult, but once it was approved, all the plotting—or at least, most of it—was done! All told, Antiques to Die For took more than a year to write.
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