Lisa Jackson's Blog - Posts Tagged "nancy-bush"

My sister Nancy Bush and I write joint novels, (The Wicked Series and upcoming One Last Breath—available in May 2018) and we’ve always partnered on books, bouncing ideas back and forth and editing, in general, talking out our books. Our friend Rosalind Noonan was originally our editor and has evolved into a great friend and fellow writer who, too, is involved in various stages of our books as well as writing her own. We all have different talents and interests and writing styles which, we think, complement each other. At least we hope so.

So writing together was a natural, right? Well, maybe.



I’d written a novel years ago (Most Likely to Die) with a couple of other authors, Beverly Barton and Wendy Corsi Staub. In that book, I came up with the concept of three individual but linked love stories beneath the broader umbrella of a mystery/suspense arc that covers the entire novel. So Roz, Nan and I decided to try something similar with our first book, Sinister, which turned out to be a whole lot of fun. Together we came up with the plot, town, characters and found a way to link the separate stories together. It seemed to work. The book was a bestseller–yay! On the heels of Sinister, we decided to write one more and came up with Ominous. Once again, three love stories under the suspense umbrella and a sequel to Sinister. Many of the characters the small Wyoming town of Prairie Creek show up in Ominous. Also, there’s a cowboy or certainly western feel to both books. We all ended up loving the characters.


So, I guess, three writers can actually work together and come up with not just one, but two books!