Danielle Girard Danielle Girard

The graph of a thriller

It’s a bizarre thing to see the emotions that come with reading a book in the form of a graph, but this one does a pretty good job of mapping out the revelations when it’s done well. For a pantser like me (that is someone who doesn’t plot a book out), this happens mostly by intuition and, as far as I can tell, a little big of magic.

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Danielle Girard Danielle Girard

What happened to the bride?

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Saw this bouquet abandoned during a stop in a small town on a driving trip last week. A cold wind and a slate sky, the scene was eerie. I started to wonder…

Where is the bride? Why leave your bouquet behind? What happened to you?

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Danielle Girard Danielle Girard

The seed

With book two of the Badlands Thriller Series done and in editing, I find myself looking back at where it started. Here I am in the fall of 2015, on my first visit to North Dakota. It felt like outer space. Still does a bit. But what a great place for an edgy thriller…

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