The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.