Emma White

I think some of it was there in first draft, but largely it's in the rewrites, because I had to go back through and make things more consistent.

You know, if I set everyone up to be the killer, you know, not everyone is the killer.

So I had to maybe dial some of them back a little and then amp

amp up the more murderous tendencies of others.

So a lot of it, a lot of it is in the rewrite.

I actually love editing.

When you were asking about the editing process with my agent and my editor, it is my favorite thing to do.

And being confronted with a blank page is very scary.

It can be fun once you get into the swing of it, but I love editing.

So I would say a lot of that recalibration came in the rewrite once I'd figured out what was actually happening and who was doing what.

That's a really good question.

I think that that was something I had to work on, certainly with editing, because I think when I wrote the first draft, it was very messy.

And I think it was probably a bit too repetitive, because I was feeling out how each character would have experienced different events.

I think that part of it was trying to

segment different events.

So sometimes picking up in the same scene, but just like a minute later than what we've already kind of experienced through a different character's eyes.

So we're still right with them in that scene.

But we're, you know, we're moving it forward.

And then for the I think it's the especially the first three chapters, we have all three women experienced their first meeting of their of their true crime book club.

And it is