I’m so, so grateful to have worked with the incredibly talented Alfredo Cáceres. The best moment to date might have been when I saw my cover for the first time. Fortunately, my agent loved it and we found a wonderful editor who felt the same way. Those two things happened months apart but when they came together, I had a whole story. The story grew from two seeds – a random text from my sister and a visit to an abandoned abattoir in my husband’s hometown of Butte, Montana. I’d call it an unexpected journey, but I think that line has been taken. How would you describe your journey from the initial idea of writing a book to the finished product? None of it is going to be easy, especially with Evie’s panic attacks, but the strange neighborhood plays by its own set of rules, and some of them might just be in Evie’s favor.

Save her aunt, escape a dead serial killer, and get them all back to The Clackity before the sun sets. The task sounds simple enough, except these aren’t regular houses, and she’s being followed by a dead man. She must make her way through them, one by one, until she reaches the seventh house, and her aunt. To find them both, Evie crosses through the abattoir to a strange neighborhood of seven houses. The Clackity promises to help Evie get Desdemona back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier, and who has unspeakable ties to the abattoir. There she meets The Clackity, a creature that lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse.

The Clackity by Lora Senf