- Luke and Larry were originally meant to be side characters. Sometimes characters take on a life of their own.
- The blog has always gotten a decent share of views from Russia, despite the author being American and the blog in English. So uh, Привет, как дела?
- Methuselah was also meant to be a side character, but he was just too damn awesome not to keep around as a major character.
- I got the idea for Chanteuse when I was at the tail end of book 1. The thought process was literally, "what if I crossed Betty's powers with Michael's powers?"
- Betty's disability was inspired by my own tonal hearing loss in my left ear. While my own hearing loss is no where near the severity that the character has, I have a very real fear of losing all my hearing.
- Book 2 was originally going to be a compilation of vignettes about various characters manifesting powers for the first time. Then I got lazy and wrote another novel...
- Linus originally was going to betray the group--but I couldn't justify a love story with Sabrina given what a dick move that would be. I opted in favor of the love story.
- Linus and Sabrina are obviously an homage to the movie Sabrina.
- There are never any detailed chess references because I always lose at chess. This is partially a result of me trying to bring glory to a single pawn in lieu of utilizing more powerful pieces. Hint, the strategy never works, but it amuses me so.
- Michael was meant to be the most "blend in with the crowd" looking person. Unfortunately, Jo draws him handsome. I named him Michael because it was one of the most common names I could think of.
- I have been slacking off on writing book 3 because I'm working on another project. This entire post is also my way of saying writing on book 3 has stalled out because I'm writing a different book series at the moment.
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