How Alex Segura and Rob Hart Made the Full-Time Writer’s Life Work

"The full-time writing life is hard," Hart said. "Even if you sign a large deal, there are months between checks, so you have to rethink how you live." Segura agreed: "Rob and I both hustle pretty hard. You have to keep the plate spinning, and while I'm working on the stuff that's coming out now, I have to be thinking about what's coming out in 2025 and 2026."

The two authors' publication schedules this year are cases in point. In June, Hart published Assassins Anonymous (Putnam)-his "nail-biting latest," per PW's starred review-and already has a sequel, The Medusa Protocol, slated for release next June. Segura's next book, Alter Ego (Flatiron), a sequel to the Los Angeles Times Book Award-winning novel Secret Identity, is due out on December 3. And on November 12, Mad Cave Studios will publish The Legendary Lynx, a graphic novel written by Segura and illustrated by Sandy Jarrell that is set in the Secret Identity universe. As if that weren't enough, Hart and Segura also teamed up to cowrite the sci-fi spy thriller Dark Space, published by Blackstone in October.