I'd heard of this phenomenon from other writers I know, how the experience of having a book come out can be somewhat anticlimactic. A book's actual publication, after all, is separated from its completion by months at least. There is so much copy-editing and typesetting and marketing preparation between when an author stops living her novel and when she has to talk about it. I felt a little bit of this: By the time I was asked to talk about The Luxe, it did feel slightly remote to me, and I occasionally wished that I had bottled up some of my thought process during the writing of it to share with interviewers. But at the same time I experienced something else far more rewarding, which is the joy of writing in serial form. Many authors, high and low, have revisited their characters in multiple books, and I knew from the beginning that The Luxe would be a series. But I hadn't anticipated how exciting it would be to come back to these characters in Rumors, the second installment of The Luxe series, and find that I had more to learn about them, that there were all these other aspects of their personalities that I had left unexplored in the first book. It was so wonderful to find that they weren't set in stone, that they were still open and that they could have new memories and new desires.
I'd love to know what characters from literature you wish had a sequel and why?
Anna Godbersen
Author of The Luxe
www.myspace.com/annagodbersen
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