I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Edward Gorey
Since the TJ Wilde trilogy is completed and there are some folks new to it, I thought I might go back and explain how TJ came to be.
Believe it or not, one morning I woke up and the opening scene to Run Aground was fully formed. TJ somehow sprang to life and refused to be quiet about it.
There she was, running for her life in the morning hours, just before dawn. And where was she running to? Why, a funeral home, of course. It all made sense somehow. She explained it all:
Annie DeMoranville 