That said, they definitely toe the line-especially Nova.

Oh, definitely fun! I had a pretty good idea about how I wanted their identities to be revealed from early on, so I knew I had to find ways to keep the secrets until then. In scenes between Adrian and Nova in Renegades, was it fun or difficult to keep them from revealing their identities to each other? And I know the readers really, really want to see a particular couple get married. Haha, who knows! Although I don’t currently have anything in the works, I do occasionally get a new idea flitting around in my thoughts, crying for attention. Story continues Would you ever revisit The Lunar Chronicles? In Renegades, I connect most with Ruby, who is a Renegade who tries to be tough and self-sufficient, but really, she’s a pretty bubbly person who cares deeply for her friends and family. I try to find ways to connect with every character on some level, as that helps me understand them and write them more authentically-even the villains! That said, there are definitely some characters that have more of me in them than others. I feel like I put a little bit of myself in all the characters. Do you see yourself in the characters you have written? In the end, there turned out to be a lot of surprises that I couldn’t have predicted when I first started writing it. But the more I wrote and learned about the characters and uncovered secrets about the world, the longer and more complicated the story became. Initially, I had thought that Renegades would be a stand-alone novel, and I’d outlined it as such. How much of the trilogy did you have mapped out before beginning the series?Īlmost none! Unlike The Lunar Chronicles, which I’d outlined extensively before starting to write, this series developed much more organically.

Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer