Research, undated

Materials documenting The Devil Went Down to Austin is arranged according to chronological writing process: correspondence, a research interview, author’s notes, an early draft, and an annotated manuscript with revisions. The correspondence consists of various written communication to and from Kate Miciak, executive editor of Bantam Dell Publishing Group from 2000. These letters reference revisions and suggestions about book. Along with letter are the author’s revision notes in response to Miciak’s suggestions for the manuscript. There is also an email from Riordan to Gina Maccoby of the Literary Agency concerning a review of the draft. Notes are available concerning character descriptions and involvement in plot, character names sheet, notes on scenes and discoveries and a dated reference sheet of characters dated June 15, 2000. There are also three plot map flow charts, and chapter synopsis. In addition, there is complete clean-typed manuscript that is an early draft of The Devil Went Down to Austin , and a complete, slightly annotated typed manuscript of the same