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Randy Elrod
The idea first found me when I was 17 years old — and later, while reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, I stumbled across two names in passing: Chloé Permanyer and Baltasar Morel. Zafón mentioned them briefly and moved on. I couldn't.
I knew then that those two people had a story that needed telling. I also knew that while The Mysteries of Paris and The Mysteries of London existed as great serial novels, nobody had written The Mysteries of Barcelona.
I understood in that moment that I was the person meant to write it.
It took me until Barcelona — until I actually lived here, walked these Gothic streets, breathed this city — to finally write the book that seventeen-year-old boy knew existed.
Some ideas wait until you're ready for them.
I knew then that those two people had a story that needed telling. I also knew that while The Mysteries of Paris and The Mysteries of London existed as great serial novels, nobody had written The Mysteries of Barcelona.
I understood in that moment that I was the person meant to write it.
It took me until Barcelona — until I actually lived here, walked these Gothic streets, breathed this city — to finally write the book that seventeen-year-old boy knew existed.
Some ideas wait until you're ready for them.
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