So I think, you'd better hope I write slower. But if I did that we'd get to Z faster and then they'd all be pissed off. Because a publisher would run you ragged, you know? What's it to them?"įans as well as business people don't want to see Grafton's work flow slow down. "But I think it's up to me to keep myself fresh and alert and crisp. A book a year is killing me." The successful author has, however, met resistance from her publisher who, she says, would love nothing more than a steady stream of the popular books. I'm gonna be doing maybe 15 to 18 months between books. Grafton has been writing a Kinsey book every year, but intends to slow down in the future.
So I have to assure them: mother loves you and we're all going to be together forever." I think it's their own abandonment issues. "All of a sudden people are all asking me what happens when I run out of alphabet. Now halfway through the alphabet, Grafton's fans are starting to worry about the future. Some of the early ones are just dazzling to me." I read some of the early books and think I will never be that smart again. Grafton says that each book is really different and that a necessary evolution has taken place as Grafton progresses through her own life. I didn't even think I'd get that book published." And when she did, it was with a first printing of only 6500 copies. The first book in the series, A is for Alibi, "has a very odd energy to it because I had nothing to lose. More recently, the book came out in paperback. The latest in the series, M is for Malice, got a press run of 1,000,000 in its first edition from Henry Holt. The new career has thus far included 13 mysteries featuring Grafton's plucky Southern Californian PI, Kinsey Millhone. So I thought, why don't I put this plot between the covers of a book and get paid for it? And that launched this whole new career." But I knew I was going to get caught at it because I credit the police with quite a bit of intelligence. "So, I used to lie in bed at night just thinking of ways to do him in. Niceness, says Grafton, wasn't working in this instance. Which is often true, unless you're getting divorced. "I just thought you have to be nice in life and everything would come out all right. The words and ideas flowing quickly, as though in a race to fit all those thoughts into a few sentences: a style that characterizes her work. "I was in the middle of a very bitter divorce," says Grafton, her voice somehow soft, southern and staccato all at once.
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That is what the diminutive southern born writer did when she started her bestselling series of Alphabet murder mysteries in the early 1980s. Don't let that ex-husband get you down! Just start a whole new job." "Your homicidal urges can be turned to good in this world. Mystery novelist Sue Grafton says she has a message for women everywhere.
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