I am proud of the whole series, but I have to say, the final ten chapters at the end of book 1-when everyone is rushing up to the roof, and you know someone is going to die-is the most carefully-plotted sequence in the entire series. The greatest struggle has definitely been hitting my deadlines! No matter how hard I try to get ahead of schedule, I inevitably need a few extra days (or weeks…) to finish my drafts.

Fan question #2: I’d also love to know what has been her biggest struggle with the 'Thousandth Floor' series and what she is most proud of in that series? It’s all the drama and romance of The Thousandth Floor, with a dose of political intrigue and history.ĥ. Instead of being the first president, George Washington became the first king. My next series is called American Royals, and I cannot wait for you to be able to read it! It takes place in present-day America, with a twist-we have a monarchy. Fan question #1: I’d love to know what projects, if any, she has planned for after the Thousandth Floor trilogy ends!? What genre and if she could talk about it! Those types of feelings can translate from historical fiction to contemporary to novels set a hundred years from now.Ĥ.

To write about a character falling in love for the first time, I think about how it felt to me when I fell in love for the first time. I think all writers inevitably put some of themselves into their stories! Of course, since I’m writing a world with elements of science fiction and fantasy, I can’t directly write from experience but even though the setting might be imagined, the emotions aren’t. How much of your personal experiences if at all influenced the storyline and characters? I was hoping to convey that technology in itself cannot make us happy, because, at its core, happiness isn’t about life becoming “easy.” Instead, happiness comes from ourselves, and our relationships with each other.ģ. But even in that future world, the characters still want the same things that people want today. I tried to depict a future world of incredible convenience, with computerized contact lenses and incredible high-speed travel-a world where, as Watt puts it, everything is “easier and faster and safer”. As we’ve all become attached to our iPhones (I keep seeing people walk along the streets without looking up from their screens, furiously texting!) our face-to-face interactions have suffered. The Thousandth Floor series focuses a lot on technology, and how it changes the way that people interact with one another. Do you see trends, whether positive or negative in our society that this trilogy focuses on?

The thousandth floor series in order