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I felt a little guilty for what I did to Ryan in Ultraviolet, so I figured I’d better make it up to Tia and give her a story. I knew from the start that it would be a little different to other Blackwood books due to Tia’s age and background. No way was I going to give that girl a gun (although in the dim and distant past when I was writing Pitch Black, I did consider turning her in to Emmy’s sidekick—no, that would never have worked).
Mostly, I write in silence or with white noise in the background, but for Red, I played the tracks from the story instead. I must have listened to “Summer of ’69” a hundred times, but my darling boyfriend finally took the hint and took me to see Bryan live, so it was all good.
The first part of the story turned out lighter, especially aft
