Asha
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Gena Showalter:
Where do you get inspiration from your stories from? What kinds of things help inspire your characters, personality wise? As an aspiring writer, I know that character development is really hard, and I do admire a writer who can develop their characters.
Gena Showalter
I’ve been inspired in different ways for different books. Dreams, conversations, something I've seen, even had a book idea hit me after listening to a church sermon. Alice in Zombieland came about from passages of scripture: (paraphrasing) our battle is not against flesh and blood but against evil spirits. A grain of an idea gets me excited, and then I play connect the dots (asking myself why and how) and the story/characters grow from there!
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CARISSA E
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Gena Showalter:
Hey Gena I don't have a question but I wanted to tell you, you are my favorite author. I love the White Rabbit Chronicles and The Lords of the Underworld. Everybody's questions too you seem to be mostly about William and Gilly. I love them both though I don't think I like them together. But I've LOVED every book I've read by you so I trust that you'll give us all something great either way.?
Lissette
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Gena Showalter:
From the synopsis, this book series is very different from your Alice in Zombie land trilogy which i loved by the way. From paranormal to contemporary is a big jump. Are there any similar character traits in your characters from this series and the characters from the Alice in Zombieland trilogy?
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