Bigfoot and Death

Why, (you may ask) did I decide to write about THESE characters in the Dirty Deeds anthology?

Bigfoot stole the show for me in SEALED WITH A TRYST (my short novel in the antho). I’ve mentioned him in the Ordinary Magic series. Just little things like: he’s a kleptomaniac who collects light bulbs. He got drunk once with Odin and got arrested. He’s allergic to magic.

But while writing Delaney and Ryder trying to escape the vacation town of the gods to go on a vacation of their own, Bigfoot’s sweet/silly/awkward love story just…happened.

I’m not gonna lie. Writing about Bigfoot made me so happy because nothing about it was planned. I chortled my way through every scene, while falling a little in love with the big, hairy galoot and his people.

As for Death who goes by the name Than, well, he began as a side character in book #1 of the Ordinary Magic series (Death and Relaxation).

Once I wrote him–his sly-teasing friendship with Delaney, his utter fascination with the human experience, his terrible fashion sense–I knew I needed more. Lots more.

He is in every single Ordinary book, without fail. Six books in, I decided it was time he got to show us the world through his eyes for once. So I wrote AT DEATH’S DOOR to give us one more chance to hang out with our favorite kite-shop owning, fancy-tea loving, dragon-pig disapproving, god of death.