Connelly: Let's get the business out of the way. What's Finger Lickin' Fifteen the new Stephanie Plum novel all about and what brought you to the story?Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head ? literally.
Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime?? and the only one she'll talk to is Trenton cop?? Joe Morelli.
Pump up the heat: Chipotle's sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers.
Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah.
Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie's Grandma Mazur. Enough said.
Bring to a boil: Can Stephanie hunt down two killers?? a traitor?? five skips?? keep her grandmother out of the sauce?? solve Ranger's problems and not"is bones?
Warning: Janet Evanovich's Finger Lickin' Fifteen is habanero hot. So good you'll want seconds.
Amazon.com ReviewBook DescriptionJanet Evanovich and Michael Connelly: Author One-to-One
In this Amazon exclusive?? we brought together blockbuster authors Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters?? writing process?? and more. 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 about and what brought you to the story?
Evanovich: I wanted to do a book that featured Stephanie's wheelman Lula. Lula is one of my favorite characters because she's pulled herself up from hard times and now is just more of everything. Fifteen opens with Lula witnessing a crime and it all gets complicated after that. We're talking about barbecue gone bad cross-dressing firemen dancing hot dogs etc.
Connelly: You strike me as an author who is involved in every aspect of the publishing of her work. But the output--at least two solid novels a year--suggests otherwise that you delegate all over the place so that you can focus on writing high-quality stuff. So which is it? (And if your answer is that you do indeed delegate how the heck do you learn to do that?)
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 learn 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 effect--no movies made!) Where do you stand with Stephanie and will we ever see her on the big or small screen?
Evanovich: Jeez Louise??