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Rachel Caine:
I love your books! I do really enjoy reading your books. What was your idea to make the books? What pushed you to write the books?
Rachel Caine
Hi, Tana ... every book has a different "spark" so it's hard to speak to exactly what inspired me, but I don't start a story unless there's something in the idea that makes me want to really dig into it and explore it. For instance: the Morganville Vampires novels came about because I noticed while I was driving in the dark that the street lights were really far apart. And I began to come up with reasons why. The (on the surface) funny notion that vampires would put street lights really far apart so people would be walking in the dark more was what started me thinking about how vampires would design and run their own town, which then developed into the Morganville Vampires series.
By contrast, the thriller series (Stillhouse Lake) comes from an account I read about a serial killer who had a wife and children; they completely disappeared from the story once he was caught, and I started wondering about what the lives were like for the families of those murderers, especially in this very angry Internet age.
What always pushes me through a book is the strength of the initial idea, and the characters. If those two things aren't there, I don't do the book.
By contrast, the thriller series (Stillhouse Lake) comes from an account I read about a serial killer who had a wife and children; they completely disappeared from the story once he was caught, and I started wondering about what the lives were like for the families of those murderers, especially in this very angry Internet age.
What always pushes me through a book is the strength of the initial idea, and the characters. If those two things aren't there, I don't do the book.
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