Continuing to share the timeline and process behind my next novel to be published . . .
So it was the summer of 2007 and I had come up with a great hook for my story.
I wanted to write a story about a father watching over his daughter from Heaven.
The hook became this:
What if a father, who died when his daughter was only two years old, was granted the gift to attend his daughter’s wedding? The twist is that she’s engaged to the wrong guy and the father has to play matchmaker, all while being unable to reveal who he is.
I thought this had the makings of a pretty neat story.
When I left my fulltime job (the one with the salary and the benefits), I had just signed a four-book deal with FaithWords. The idea for Every Breath You Take was in my back pocket, so to speak.
I would start writing it in January, 2008, after learning that my next Henry Wolfe adventure had been canceled.
These things happen in publishing.