Goodreads asked Kevin Wright:

How do you get inspired to write?

Kevin Wright I've always loved writing (just ask Mrs. Smith, my third grade teacher), but what really inspired me to write this trilogy was being a Dad. My children love to read, and I got tired of hearing about "sparkly" vampires, or reading books where the good characters aren't really very good (or interesting) and the bad characters are so rich and sympathetic that you find yourself liking them more than your heroes. So I wrote the book to give my kids some characters to root for, and to show them how, when I was a boy, vampires were, y'know, bad...

But on a given day, what inspires me to actually sit down and type is exactly the same feeling that I'm hoping inspires you to read the next chapter -- that I've become invested in these characters myself, and I want to see what happens to them just as much as the readers do.

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