Anne Morgan

Q:What made you decide to write this book? What’s its backstory? A:This is the second volume in the Couriers Series. I saw an exhibit on the Couriers at the Bright Angel Lodge museum at the Grand Canyon and immediately thought what a great historical mystery series they would make. The Couriers were the women guides of the Fred Harvey Indian Detours, which ran from 1926 to the late 1930s or early 40s. The Detours were car/van tours through the Four Corners region, running from Las Vegas, New...

One of the things that surprised me most when I started editing was the number of times I recommended a writer change where they started their book. Reading interviews with authors and talking to authors—maybe because I was looking for it—I noticed this was a recurring theme. Why is that? How do we tell where our books start? Not the hook that draws readers to keep reading, but the story itself. Inciting Incident A friend of mine tells the story of her first book, about a Victorian train...

Q: What made you decide to write this book? What is its backstory? A: I love a good con. I’m intrigued with the kind of people who scam other people, and what kinds of people fall for it. In T​he Loft at Broadway and 14th​ (third in my Houses of Crime Mystery series), the scam is a romance scam. Ronnie Charles gets what she thinks is a legitimate job only to find out the guy she’s working with is involved in romance scamming lonely widows, among other things. Ronnie, a formerly homeless petty...