She signed a four-book deal, said to be for eight figures, with Atria in 2020, and in March 2022 she’s releasing The Recovery Agent, the first book in a new series. It’s good.”Įvanovich, 78, has been making moves lately. “At this point I just follow my grandkids around the country,” she says. She moved from Florida to Chapel Hill to be closer to her daughter, Alex, and her grandson she also has a condo in Hawaii, where her son, Peter, and his children live. I’m not equipped for video.” The author is in her bedroom, surrounded by boxes, at a makeshift writing desk, her fluffy white dog at her feet. ‘I have a whole year to decide what I’m going to dress up as,’ she said.'I just bought a house in North Carolina and I have absolutely no furniture,” Janet Evanovich says via Zoom. Evanovich has already made plans to be on hand with her graphic novel at the next one. The book is scheduled for a July 2010 release date, timed to take advantage of next year’s Comic-Con, the annual explosion of comic books, pop culture and their costume-clad fans, which wrapped up this summer in San Diego. Readers can judge for themselves one year from now.

‘We just have to work at it, and we have to make sure the voice is there, because that’s an important part of it.’ ‘I don’t think we’re going to know until we get that sucker out there,’ she said. What’ll be trickier is rendering her trademark voice. ‘We want the action not just to be shown through what they do and what they say and by ‘ka-pow!’ We actually think it’s very important that these figures portray movement an action and fluidity.’Īn erstwhile painter herself, Evanovich believes conjuring up the right images won’t be difficult. The author says she hopes for something between the Betty-and-Veronica she grew up on and the Japanese manga of which her own daughter, Alex, is such a fan.

Meanwhile, Dark Horse, also home to the ‘Buffy’ comics as well as ‘Star Wars’ titles, is working with Evanovich to develop the right visual style. Evanovich and her daughter have already plotted out much of the story, she said, but beyond its Miami setting and its major characters - the wise-cracking heroine, her race car driver boss Sam Hooker, his dog and ‘these three Cuban ladies’ - they aren’t giving up many details.

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