Ari Sharks asked Shannon Messenger:

First, I love your books. I know you probably get that a long, but that is because they are so supertastic!!! Anyway, your books inspired me! I am now working on a series about three kids, Kyle, Eden and Chase. Anyway, my question is this: How do get your plots so complex? I love that your books are so long and have many plots twisted together, and I would like to make my books that interesting, too! Thanks so much!

Shannon Messenger Yay for writing! And I wish I had a better answer than "my plots are complex because I make them that way" but....that's really the truth. I give my side characters their own stories, and I have multiple villains, and all of that naturally makes the story more complex. So since you have three kids, I'd say make sure they each have their own "things" going on. That'll naturally add more complexity to the story.

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