How do you go about plotting and then keeping track of those different story strands without getting yourself lost all in it?

Yeah, so it's interesting that you bring up that scene.

This is a scene where Preston, who's this conspiracy theorist, has essentially kind of created this three-dimensional murder board that's kind of connecting all of these different crimes together.

So it's like this kind of giant cat's cradle.

almost, that he's created.

And in the plotting of this book, I started to feel a little bit like that.

There was this meta-fictional quality where what Preston was going through and kind of making all these connections was very much what I felt like I was going through as the writer, which was kind of spooky, but also interesting just from a process perspective.

Could you just tell us a little bit about that?