![]() Next, how on earth would I be able to criticize, even constructively, the work of a writer I admired as much as I admire Louise? A total pro who’d written fifteen novels in fifteen years, each one selling more than the previous, each one proclaimed as “the best yet”? And how would I do it without making the utterly charming and thoroughly professional Louise Penny hate me forever? Number one, about the number of people would gladly murder me in order to be one of Louise’s first readers and get their hands on this novel that wouldn’t be widely available for more than six more months. ![]() I remember feeling several things, as I opened up the manuscript of A Better Man and started reading. By the time we were publishing the tenth and eleventh book in the series, I was getting more and more involved in the work behind the scenes, but it wasn’t until we published A Better Man, the fifteenth book in the series, that I became Louise’s lead editor. I read each Gamache book as it came in and counted myself as a fan. We all thought it was wonderful, but we had no idea where we were headed-to the top of the bestseller lists and the heights of popularity in crime fiction. ![]() I was working at Minotaur Books in 2004 when Still Life was sent in on submission, and in 2006 when we published it, and I remember the excitement over a series that started out modestly but inspired crazy passionate fans even with that first book. ![]()
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