So your first mystery caper, FIT TO BE DEAD is out now. NGW: I figured you would demand your own series.Īggie: If you hadn’t promised me that, I’d never have let you finish NINE DAYS TO EVIL. NGW: By the time I finished NINE DAYS TO EVIL, Meredith’s story, you’d taken over my consciousness to the point where I knew I had to write about you.Īggie: And you knew that one book from my point of view wouldn’t be enough. NGW: I got tickled at you so often, it was difficult for me to stay serious long enough to even finish NINE DAYS TO EVIL.Īggie: And it’s a better book, thanks to me. I’d say, “Aggie just did something hilarious.”Īggie: That’s one way to get him out of the office.

NGW: I’d be chuckling in front of the computer screen, and he’d ask me what was so funny. I’d be concentrating on how she could get out of her predicament, agonizing over it, and you’d do something to make me laugh.Īggie: You share an office with your husband? That’s really crazy. NGW: You made it hard for me to focus on Meredith’s problems. stuff like that.Īggie: I got in your head, didn’t I? You needed me. NGW: You made it hard for me to keep ratcheting up suspense in Meredith’s story.Īggie: You needed contrast. NGW: You made me chuckle, sitting there like you owned the place. Giving the professor a ‘show-me-something’ look. NGW: You showed up in class wearing a warm-up and sneakers. I was right there with Meredith in those classes at University of the Holy Trinity.

NGW: So you appeared in my head making wisecracks about Meredith’s problems, about her outlook, about her husband, even about her professors. And you showed up in the middle of my writing Meredith’s novel to be funny? NGW: Somebody with whom she could share problems? Somebody to help her?Īggie: Somebody with a sense of humor. Why did you pick that time to pop into my head, Aggie? NGW: I was writing a serious suspense novel, NINE DAYS TO EVIL, about Meredith Laughlin, a graduate student facing a life-threatening dilemma. West Interviews Her Series Protagonist, The Inimitable Aggie Mundeen A Secondary Character Appears Mid-Stream and Demands Her Own Story: Nancy G.

Fit to be Dead by Nancy G. West