Sneezep asked Josh Lanyon:

First of all I have enjoyed your books. While I found the Adrien English series often bittersweet, Kit Holmes has made me laugh out loud several times, and I can't think when the last time I audibly laughed while reading. Thank you for bringing him and JX to life. Do you concurrently write several books at once, or do you concentrate on a single work? Is it difficult to slip back into a given series after a break?

Josh Lanyon Hello, Sneezep,

First, thank you for your kind comments. I appreciate them. I do laugh quite a bit myself writing the Kit Holmes books, but humor is tricky so it's always nice to hear that someone else is laughing along too. ;-)

I used to work on a number of books at once, but I do that less and less these days -- mostly because I spend so much time managing all the other pieces of my writing career (print, audio, promo, ads, etc.) The non-creative part of the business takes a bigger and bigger chunk of time.

But I prefer to have the luxury of jumping back and forth from story to story because that "resting phase" is really when a lot of good things happen to a work. Ideas percolate and evolve. I would like to eventually get back to that method.

As for returning to a series, there's always an initial feeling my way back into the characters' lives, but that usually takes place before I begin writing. I have to reacquaint myself with my characters, of course, but at the same time, the continuing characters like JX and Kit (and even Adrien and Jake, really) never fully vanish from my thoughts.

Which is actually an odd way to live now that I think of it! :-D

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