Mare, you ask hard questions! I'm going to do my best here...
If you could do this all over again, would you have still chosen to make this a sequel or do you wish you had just created brand new characters to draw from?
-For this particular story, I still think I'd write it as a sequel because there are aspects (both things you've read and things you haven't) that really incorporate a lot of the backstory from the last one. The idea came to me as an Annie and Nick story, and if I'd made new characters, it wouldn't have been the story I was aiming to write.
In your head did you always know you were going to create Frank or did he just pop up while you were writing this?
-Honestly, Frank is a subplot. Without giving too much away, he's relevant, but he's not the whole story. He's a character I came up with while trying to bridge some of gaps I was finding in my original plotline.
Now that Frank has taken his revenge and it seems like he has achieved his goal, is this story going to still go suspense or are you now going to focus on the after affects of what happened?
-We're still going suspense. The story definitely isn't over.
You had him staying in Pennsylvania, is he coming to kill me next? Huh? LOL ...
-Maybe I'll plead the fifth on that one? LOL