Jasmin asked M.L. Rio:

Hey, I just wanted to start out by saying that If We Were Villains is one of my favorite books of all time. Especially your writing is beautiful and captivating. My question is in how far you planned some of the foreshadowing in it? What are some examples where it was planned and where was it purely coincidental?

M.L. Rio I'm so glad you love the book. As for foreshadowing, much of it was intentional (the first scene in the Castle library, for instance, which is one of the first scenes I wrote, is heavily loaded with foreshadowing which is probably much more obvious on a second reading). However, there were also some more organic moments of foreshadowing which I didn't even notice until a second (or third, or fourth, or twentieth) reading. So, it's a little of both.

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