Claire asked E.M. Swift-Hook:

When you wrote your Transgressor trilogy - did you always know it was going to be a threesome or did it grow into one? How did you plan the different parts?

E.M. Swift-Hook This is a very interesting question as the answer has a bit of a story behind it.
The books were originally written in a much more abbreviated form to be the third part of a trilogy following the adventures of Avilon. However, those earlier books were definitely not of sufficient quality or quality for publication in any form, being good examples of my juvenilia, but not work I would ever want out on display. Transgressor alone had sufficient potential and maturity to be taken on into what I was already planning and formulating - the 'Fortune's Fools' universe and series.
About ten years ago I typed up the manuscript, developed the story and eventually turned it into the trilogy of today. This meant that the three parts were not planned as seperate elements in first draft.
Indeed, all my trilogies are a single story told over three books, rather than three sories with an ongoing arc. That overarching story-arc is the one which binds all three trilogies of Fortune's Fools togther.
Each book is written to have its own sub-plots, it's own featured characters, but there is no sense of final resolution until the end of the trilogy.

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