A Goodreads user asked Kevin Cole:

What's the process for creating and defining your characters?

Kevin Cole In DOTG, I modeled characters on people I knew. Some are amalgams of different sorts. Others were inspired by just one. I also made up some characters, which was harder to do. In those cases, I took an aspect of myself and built a character around it.

For me, the challenge is not creating characters so much as making them intelligent, even when they're stupid. It's no work to ridicule someone. But to make him sound smart, even if he's the only one who thinks so, now that's a good character!

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