No one would take a debut author's five-book series. Too risky.

Every thriller needs its villains and heroes, but the characters that haunt some readers’ minds are the ones who live in the gray spaces. In Vanishing Mia, two men emerge who embody this perfectly: Boudreaux Marcellas and Martin Bledsoe.

I know perfection doesn’t exist. I’ve been writing long enough to understand that. You can revise forever if you let yourself. You can chase cleaner sentences, sharper pacing, tighter dialogue until you drain the life out of the work.