A Goodreads user asked Gail Carriger:

Your serieses and books are so integrated and interconnected. It is so much fun to go back and reread them and find clues and foreshadows (backshadows?). How far ahead or back do you plan things? Do you have a master web of plot twists and connections in your head? On paper? Or are you just insanely clever (instead of the plain, old really clever). and write and go "oh well this ties nicely back to that?"

Gail Carriger Backshadows, I like it! Well I started planning the Custard Protocol series in Soulless, and the Finishing School series in Changeless. But only loosely. My technique is to drop a lot of threads and pick them up in different books as the series dictates. Sometimes is does backfire on me. Now, I do have a master timeline on my wall, two sheets of legal size graph paper. Just to keep everything straight. Someday I'll have to crowd-source a wiki because It's getting too much for my poor old brain. Sometimes it is pure serendipity. Lord Akeldama, I've learned, is an instrument of my subconscious and he knows what is going on usually better than I do.

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