Gabriel Woods asked Lissa Oliver:

Lissa do you have a theme that you express implicitly or explicitly in your books? Which character or events in your variety of published books expresses this them?

Lissa Oliver Marcel in Chantilly Dawns is suffering from loss, not only of his career, but his sense of worth. Similarly, Pete in Gala Day is always conscious of the glittering career he let slip from his grasp, but is fighting to regain it. Everyone in Sainte Bastien has been adversely affected by loss. In Nero, that was fact-based and not of my creation, but his loss was of a normal childhood and personal freedom. I don't think it was a deliberate theme, but I can see how it's coming through that way. A lot of people coming to creative writing classes have been past victims of bullying, perhaps it's in our nature as writers who live within ourselves, and I was conscious of the different damaging effects of bullying on some of the characters in Chantilly Dawns and Sainte Bastien. Each character has come out of it in a very different way.

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