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It's been a long time since I've focused on writing any fiction. I was so gung-ho when I finished writing the second draft of Dark Water that I immediately began thinking of the sequel. While I let Dark Water simmer, and while friends and family were reading the rough draft, I started work on The Watcher . Image: ChatGPT I knew right away that I wanted this story to be set in Ottawa's ByWard Market, and I wanted a serial killer. But that's pretty much all I knew. Not that that was a bad thing: when I had my initial idea for Dark Water , I had a victim and the location of where that victim would be found. I didn't have the killer or a motive. I wanted to have a First Nations element to the story. Ottawa is seated on unceded territory of the Algonquin people and I wanted to recognize that. All of the victims would be found with an item that could be linked to the Algonquin First Nation. But I wanted to be careful. I didn't want the killer to be First Nation. As...
