When Wendy and I first began writing together, we decided on the characters and setting of our first book, Old Bones. We only envisioned it to be a stand-alone mystery about a ranger and his daughter. As we got deeper into the story it became obvious to us that the characters had much more to tell us, and it would require several books. To do that we went back closer to the beginning of their story and began Keepers of the Sandbox. It is out of order to publish in that manner, and we realized that it might cause some readers confusion, but it couldn’t be helped. I figure if Nevada Barr can do it, so can we. However, if you happen to pick up Keepers of the Sandbox first, this is irrelevant for you. With luck, future books will be sequential and, so far, we have four more in the works...but you never know what the characters may tell us to do, or how and when they will tell us to do it.... I guess that’s the point of all: Never constrain your writing because of some silly idea about the rules of how you are “supposed to do it.” Where would we be today if our predecessors had all followed that dictum!?
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