Tetragrammatine

The deeper I got, I started working harder and more hours because I kept feeling like if I don't keep going, if I lose momentum, I'll never finish.

And if you know the book, it goes out into a lot of different subjects and areas.

And I always felt behind.

So it got to be seven days a week.

And I was literally working about an average of eight to 12 hours a day.

I mean, I wouldn't eat dinner until nine.

If I ate dinner, I couldn't work after dinner.

So I try to put it off till 9.

I'd take a break.

I had a dog, a neighbor's dog, that I would walk a couple times a day.

So I get that hour of fresh air, and then I go to the gym for an hour.

But other than that, it was just constant.

Do you think of yourself as an investigative journalist?

Well, actually, I was doing it for a few years before this.

This was my first book, and it was my first real heavy investigative piece, but I had done the story prior I had been asked to do as, well, actually, I pitched it to Details Magazine, a story about a woman who was mysteriously killed.

And she lived in L.A. and it was a classic small town beauty queen, Michigan girl comes out here to think she's going to be, you know, a star, the next Madonna, singer, actress.

And she ends up getting killed and left in a pit. It was the 50th anniversary

to the week of the Black Dahlia murder, which was famously an unsolved murder of a Midwestern

girl. She wasn't cut in half like Elizabeth Short, but she was stabbed and left there about three,

four days before her body was discovered by vagrants,

and then she wasn't identified for a week.

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