A Good Girl's Guide to Murder author Holly Jackson says she chimed in on the BBC/Netflix show adaptation "wherever she bloody well" could

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So just how involved was A Good Girl's Guide to Murder author Holly Jackson in the live-action adaptation for a BBC/Netflix show? Very, and not just behind-the-camera. During a packed official panel for the show just now at London's MCM Comic Con, Jackson and the cast talked about the highly-anticipated series.

As Jackson tells the audience, she learned through the process of the BBC/Netflix show A Good Girl's Guide to Murder that she is a bit of a control freak and has trouble letting go. She said she stuck her nose into the production "wherever she bloody well" could, and insisted that the show have a woman director - which it does in Holly Wells.

Jackson's involvement with the show wasn't limited to behind-the-camera, as she also has multiple cameos in the show . Wells says the author has a cameo in both episode three and four, and its even revealed she almost had a second one in the third episode but it was cut.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder debuts July 1 for those in the UK on BBC Three and the BBC iPlayer, with international airings planned for Netflix and more later in the year.

The other star of Netflix's hit series Wednesday, Emma Myers, is stepping out on her own with the BBC/Netflix adaptation of a Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Read on for details about the show's cast, release date, and a play-by-play of the show's official panel from London's MCM Comic Con, and coming soon you can watch the full panel for free.