Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (THE VACATION MYSTERIES #1) by Catherine Mack EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Catherine Mack
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I’m Going to Kill Him
Rome
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
I want to commit a homicide.
Why, you ask? Bear with me for a second, and I’ll explain.
I write books for a living. But the thing is, I never meant to write a
book in the first place. I know that sounds nuts—who writes an entire novel
by accident?—but that’s what happened. Ten years ago, after a lifechanging trip to Italy during a crisp January, I wrote a book.
And okay, I know what you’re thinking. Didn’t Elizabeth Gilbert do
that already? Was it some kind of Eat, Pray, Love knockoff?
I want to say no, but the truth is—kind of?
I mean, there were thefts, detective work, and even a murder. But there
was also lots of travel, a love story, and pasta.
I’ll get to all of that.
What you need to know right now is that when I got home after a
whirlwind month of adventure, I had an overwhelming urge to write down
what had happened, and it spilled out of me in a feverish rush. How I met
Connor Smith, how we got embroiled in solving a series of robberies that
ended in a murder, how we fell in love—I sifted through everything we’d
experienced and out came When in Rome.
And the things that happened in the months after that—getting an
agent, selling the book at auction, being flown to New York to meet my
publishing team—felt like a continuation of a dream I couldn’t seem to
wake up from.
My wake-up call came six weeks before the book was scheduled to
launch that November.
Because I’d forgotten one tiny detail.
I never told Connor I was writing about him. I just invited him to meet
me in New York and didn’t tell him why.
If I’m being honest—and that’s what this is about, right? Confession—I
thought that when I told him, he’d pick me up and twirl me around like in a
scene from a movie.
That’s not what happened.
Instead, I got, well, not blackmailed exactly, but something blackmail
adjacent.
Because once Connor understood that he was soon to be the star of a
true-crime novel—that I’d changed everyone else’s names, including my
own, to protect the guilty, but not his—he wanted 10 percent of my
advance. It was that or—he told the publisher with an élan I had to admire
—he’d see us in court.
Even though he didn’t have a legal leg to stand on,1 my publisher didn’t
want to take the chance.2 And there was a clause in my contract that said if
we went to court, I’d be on the hook for the legal fees.3
I didn’t remember even seeing that clause.
I mean, does anyone read twenty-page single-spaced contracts?
I was going to from now on, obviously. But in the meantime, what if I
gave him the cut of my advance he wanted, my publisher asked. That would
make it so much simpler for everyone.
So I paid.
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