And One for the Devil

We end the collection with another brand-new look at Morganville, courtesy of Martha Jo, who wanted a story from Claire’s point of view … and I just happened to have one lurking in the back of my mind. Claire and Myrnin (with bonus Eve) are always a dynamic combination for me; I love that his sometimes rash ideas balance out with her native caution. Mostly. This time, it isn’t Myrnin putting Claire in danger so much as Claire being forced to figure out a puzzle he’s put into motion, then been caught within.If we’ve learnt anything from our time in Morganville, it should definitely be Don’t go in the creepy building, but then again, in Morganville … they’re all creepy, to some extent. When you mix in Myrnin’s proto-time-travel technology, anything is possible.Fun factoid: I got the idea for this story because weird things sometimes happen when you’re on book tour. You get tired. You come in late at night. Often, there’s no thirteenth floor in a hotel, but sometimes there is; sometimes there’s a thirteenth floor, but no ‘room thirteen’ on that floor.I had room number 1313 one evening, and then the next day at a new hotel, when I was also given a room on the thirteenth floor, my brain told me to look for 1313. It didn’t exist. I was convinced that the room had disappeared, until I reasoned it out, but I didn’t forget that out-of-body weirdness of looking for something that no longer existed.