[image error]TODAY I HAVE MY SISTER, KATE WILLIS, AUTHOR AND INTERNET PERSONALITY, ON HERE TO CHAT ABOUT HER BOOK AND MY BOOK, BECAUSE WE COULDN’T HELP BUT CONNECT THEM AND WE THINK THAT’S COOL.

My voice sounds like this.

Kate’s voice sounds like this.

All of you have heard about my book, Crossroads. Some of you have read it. And I hope you have all heard about my sister’s brand new book Kiera releasing this Friday. It’s about a girl named Kiera. And other people. And things that happen to them, and the things they do. And God. And I shouldn’t write blurbs because they sound SO interesting.

This is why you have me help write them.

Indeed. You have good synapses… I mean synopsises (how do I pluralize this?).

Synopses.

Yes, that. Click here to read the real, exciting description, see the awesome cover, and read some great reviews!

We’re related and so are our books. I wrote a book about a girl, my brother wrote a book about her brother (though he’s a side character). I’m the older sister. He’s the tall brother. Only brother. With seven sisters. Please send sympathy cards to the mental hospital.

We used to be able to share shoes, but around that time she also used to parent me.

Just when you were going to be stung by wasps. I saved my scorn for the boys in Sunday school.

True. I guess I’m sorry about the bike incident then.

I’m sorry about the casserole episode. What were the 90’s thinking??

I still think the floor under our chairs was a good place for it, even if mom was going to find it.

Two problems–we were Bad Kids for doing it. And no cookies.

It still hurts.

Point is, we get along and always share our writing, story ideas, plot, brainstorm, and stuff so we randomly decided to share a world and character(s?).

I had him first.

Well… I PUBLISHED HIM FIRST.

And I rewrote him to fit what you’d written better. I’m not sure I even knew he worked for the government or anything before you adopted him.

Well, that’s understandable because his job was top secret… you weren’t supposed to know.

Ah, yes. I love it when my plot is top secret too. Makes for a WILD ride.

By the way, that (s?) thing up there? It’s almost a spoiler, because not only do our books share Ian, but one more character as well. It’s just a secret to be revealed at a later date. OR if you’re a weirdly smart reader, you’ve probably figured it out.

Keep in mind my book is in the future, and pay attention to backstory… I might say something about it in a sequel to Crossroads…

No promises, so you still might never know.

I like this idea. *evil laugh*

Anyway, Ian was just the name of an older brother in my book Kiera. When Paul needed a random cool “old dude”, we suddenly realized that our timeline worked out so that Ian could be that character in his story. We developed who he was together after that.

And I gave him an extra kid because all his children were too old. I also killed one of the kids as an adult.