barrylyga OP t1_iy94gws wrote
Reply to comment by sietesietesieteblue in Hey there, r/books! I’m Barry Lyga, author of 27 novels in a variety of genres and I’m here to answer your questions honestly…or to make up shit if I don’t know what else to say — AMA! by barrylyga
Glad you liked KILLERS!
My favorite part of that series was freaking out my editor's assistant! LOL! In the first book, she told me something was just horrible and asked me to cut it. I did...and then I put it in the second book! She was like, "Nooooo!!!!"
But I think developing Connie and Jazz's relationship was probably my favorite part of writing that series. Oh, and coming up with Billy's various aliases, too!
Believe it or not, nothing really BOTHERED me in terms of subject matter. (My writer pals who knew what I was working on used to joke that I was born without a soul!) The hardest part of the books was actually plotting out the mysteries and making them work. When I showed the first draft of the first book to a friend, she said, "I love it! Was I supposed to know who the killer was by page 50?"
Needless to say... I did some revising!
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