Goodreads asked Juliette Harper:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Juliette Harper If we're perfectly honest, there are two "best" things about being a writer. We get to work from our homes and set our own hours -- and we have a little bit of a God complex.

A few days ago Patti asked me how a character died and without thinking I said, "I'm guessing from a heart attack." She laughed at me and said, "We are creating this world. He dies the way we say he dies." Now let's face it folks, that's power!

In all seriousness though, world-building is a really attractive part of the writing process. We can put our people in situations and have them grapple with ideas and events that interest us.

We have two more series in development. One is a post-apocalyptic world, and yes, there will be zombies. The real point of that world, however, is the idea that no two people survive the same way. We write about strong women, regardless of the setting and in those books, you're going to get to meet a couple of gals for whom dead men walking just aren't that much of a challenge.

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