AMA (Ask Me Anything) about the Change series! (Non-spoilery post)

[rachelmanija]

In honor of the upcoming release of Rebel (Book 3).

Ask me anything about the series, the characters, the world, etc. Sherwood will be popping in too!

This post allows spoilers for Stranger but not Hostage. There is a spoilery post which allows spoilers for both books that are out now.

Ask questions here in this post!

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[egelantier.livejournal.com]

after you're done with the tetralogy, do you think you're going to come back to this verse? with different but existing characters (like Older Yuki's Wilderness Adventures or whatnot), or previous generation, or a completely different corner of the same world, et cetera?

and a trick question - who're your personal character favorites, for both of you? whyyyy? :D

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

If other stories occur and insist on being written, yup.

Personal faves are the complicated ones, or the ones who make me laugh.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Name names. ;)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Okay! I love Voske because writing his scenes are such a high-tension challenge.

I love Preston because he's not predictable. He's a great dad, and a monster dad. He's a great town leader, and a diamond-plated jackwagon.

I love Mia because she can get into a dither over things that no one else in the world even notices. And some of her issues make me snicker.

I love Sheriff Crow because she's the awesomest of the awesome.

I love Ross because he's Ross.

I love Felicite because she can make me laugh. She's so . . . herself.

I love Jennie because she's competent in all the ways I have never been and never will be.

I love Kerry because she struggles constantly with big questions. But she's also got a sharp tongue.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I'd like to write some more, yeah, in all of the above. (I just talked about some possibilities in an answer above.) There's an existing novelette about the Catalina Players that we need to revise.

Voske is an incredibly fun character to write because every conversation with him is essentially a variation on an interrogation scene, which I like writing. He's operating at such a different level than anyone else in the book, I get a kind of sadistic glee over having characters flounder, panic, then struggle to get on top of things with him.

Felicite is also really fun to write because her self-centered perspective can be really funny, and also because her compartmentalization is such a house of cards, it's challenging to see just how long she can sustain it.

Favorites as characters: Apart from the main cast, I love Sheriff Crow. Every time she strides on with her badge and her skull face, I hear the theme music from some classic western playing. (The bounty hunter was a riff on The Man With No Name.)

I also really love Ross, as you can no doubt tell.