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AUTHOR’S NOTE:

When I wrote Picture Palace, I had so many story ideas that I couldn’t fit them all into that book; yet this wasn’t for lack of trying. My first draft had been full of extra ideas, but they made the plot unwieldy. I had to streamline the story quite a bit to make it work.

Even so, I loved the characters and the world they lived in. I wanted to keep fleshing them out, and I wanted to keep telling their stories. I realized that if I told these stories as a series, I could focus each book on one or two subplots, and I could really do them justice.

The story of Break a Leg came to me pretty easily. I took a lot of it from my existing material; but at the same time, I wanted to keep it fresh, so I also threw in some new ideas. It only took me a few days to map out every scene in the book.

Unfortunately the outline was just the first step. The actual writing took a lot longer than I’d thought. Although the characters were mostly taken from my deleted material, the individual scenes were not; the plot structure had changed so much that I had to write each scene from the ground up. There were so many twists, and so many characters with hidden agendas, that I had to be careful about every single line of dialogue.

I did have a lot of fun with it though. I loved taking the characters in new directions, and exploring new parts of their world. And I still have enough material left over for the later books in the series….

— P.

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