

I certainly didn’t know that these four pages in Passion-pulled down from my office shelf to answer a reader’s question last summer-would inspire a new Fallen novel. It was a break-up scene, full of vitriolic heat-a fragment of a romance, a lens through which to see the relationship of Luce and Daniel, whose love so consumed its context it left space for little else.

Sometimes I have to revisit my books to relearn rules I invented.įive years ago, three books into the Fallen series, I set a scene on the Jordan River circa 1000 BCE, featuring my favorite character Cam.

The coolest, strangest thing about writing a series is that dialogue and details, written in a spirit of experimentation, become fixed once a book is printed.
