Confession – I started writing “Where the Campaign Ends” back in the tail end of 2016. At the time, I still was a bit of a political nerd. I’d always enjoyed the give and take, the backroom dealing and all the things I saw during my time as a political reporter that the general public never sees.
Needless to say, politics now isn’t what it was back in the early 1990s when I was a regular at the Arizona Legislature. Even the mention of the word gives people the creeps at best, extreme nausea at worst. Which begs the question – why have my protagonist, Ryan Williams, working in politics?
The simplest answer is that it’s a world I knew, at least on a slightly better than superficial level. And the fact that his choice of career would turn off many people makes his story with his eventual love, Maggie Roberson, all the more remarkable.
She simply needed to get to know him and realize there was more to him than what the job title entailed. Does she? You can find out in the book itself …
