The film script still languishes. Being Janet Evanovich is hard work, touring and promoting constantly while committed to producing a book a year. Sue Grafton may be writing 26 alphabet mysteries, but Evanovich named her series after numbers One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five , and this year's June release, Hot Six . At least she doesn't have to come up with titles any more. People email their suggestions, and Evanovich culls a shortlist of 10 snappy titles to send to the marketing department, which makes the final decision.
Winners get an advance copy and acknowledged by name at the front of the book.
Not just a few pages, either - some of the fans write entire tribute novels, available at the site. Although webmistress Alex warns that Janet doesn't read the fan fiction, it isn't true. Some of it, she says, is very witty. Others seem more interested in realising the sexual tension in Plum books through their own graphic sex scenes. The real Stephanie Plum series is not sexually explicit.