Each book in the Dark Roads Saga, beginning with The Pact, started out as a project for the annual writer's marathon known as National Novel Writing Month. Every year, I sign up to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. No deleting, no editing, no stopping until the work is done, and I cross that finish line on November 30th with the golden 50k words under my belt. And, naturally, every year I botch it up somehow. I ignore the rules... I start late. I wrap up