Though Echo Ridge may seem like an idyllic place to call home, Ellery and her twin brother, Ezra, see it differently. With Two Can Keep a Secret, McManus has created a layered, twisty tale that enraptures the reader from the very beginning with a big mystery: What’s happening to the girls of Echo Ridge? “I had to learn how to shut all that out and just get back to the story that I wanted to tell,” she says. She was still working full time and writing, but now she also had a chorus of outsider voices-her editor, agent and readers-all echoing in her head with each new page she composed. “It’s a big move, but so far, it’s working out.”īut the success of her first book distinctly altered McManus’ writing process for her new standalone novel, Two Can Keep a Secret. “It just felt like the time was right to go ahead and take that leap to writing full time,” McManus says.
“I was just really burnt out and sleeping for about five hours a night, so something had to give,” McManus says in a call from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.įortunately, her first book, One of Us Is Lying, became a New York Times bestseller. McManus was essentially working two full-time jobs-as a marketing professional and a writer-and all the while, raising her young son after her husband’s passing.
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