Goodreads asked Laura Enright:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Laura Enright My most recent book, Ujaali, is book 2 in my Chicago Vampire Series. Actually it was really as I was writing the epilogue for the first novel in the series, which I hadn't originally intended to be the first novel of a series. It was just something I was experimenting with. But I wrote an epilogue to give some closure to a thread that I'd briefly mentioned in the first novel and I just realized that there was more I could do with that thread. It became a "what if" question. What if this happened? How would Narain (the main protagonist) react. And it just flowed from there. Much of the first three books is about how Narain deals with vampirism currently and how he dealt with it decades before when he was first turned. One mistake made out of anger decades before brought the dilemma he faces in the second book. I kind of liked exploring that notion. I go into that a little deeper in a blog post for the series blog: http://enrightvampires.blogspot.com/2...

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