Canwen Xu

She was like, well, the issue is, this is not quite a women's fiction novel, because there's not really any romance in it.

And we don't want to make you turn it into a romance.

Would you be open to changing this to suspense?

And I had never considered that before.

I never considered myself a suspense writer.

It was not something on my radar.

But the more I thought about it, the more I was like, you know what, she's right.

This would actually work really well as a suspense novel.

Since it is, there was suspense in it.

It just didn't quite get to that level that is needed for the genre.

So then after that call, Berkeley ended up preempting the book in a two book deal, which I was so happy about.

And I just spent, I think, three or four months completely writing the book into a suspense novel.

Laura, the antagonist, didn't exist up until that point.

But then I essentially wrote in an entire obsession plot.

And the book just, it just completely changed.

So even though I had gone through two rounds of editing, two very large rounds of editing myself, I then went through probably an even larger round of editing with my publishers.

Yes, yes, absolutely.

Thank you.

So again, the queer letter is going to sound very different from the current synopsis of the book.

So you guys can see just how much it has changed.