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I first got the idea for The Mediator series after my father
died in 1994. My brother and I kept thinking we saw him out of the
corners of our eyes. I know it was just a trick of our unconscious, but
it did seem a little like Dad-who had a good sense of humor, and played
a lot of pranks-was haunting us, in a joking way. That got me
thinking-what if there WERE such a thing as ghosts? And what if,
instead of just the ghost of someone YOU happened to know and love, you
were someone who could see EVERYONE's ghost?
When I mentioned this to my brother, he groaned, "You're not going to
write a book about this, are you?" I started writing one that day-a
book that eventually became SHADOWLAND, the first book in The Mediator
series, about a sixteen year old girl who can see and speak to ghosts
(only no one in her family knows this) and who moves, with her mother,
from Brooklyn to live her new stepfather and brothers in California,
where she encounters Jesse, a spirit like no other-and to whom she later
proves to be bound by destiny.whether she likes him or not.
And she definitely does.
I chose Carmel as a setting because when my brothers and I were
kids, our father taught at the Naval Academy in Monterey, CA, and we
lived in Carmel, CA, and went to the Junipero Serra Mission School, just
like Susannah Simon, the series. I've never forgotten the beauty of
Carmel, or the haunting mystery of the mission, so I based the books
there (although all the characters at the Mission School and in the
Carmel of the books are fictional).
I originally planned there to be 8 books in the series in all.
Simon and Schuster contracted me for 4 books, but the books didn't end
up selling at all, and after the publication of DARKEST HOUR, they chose
not to buy my proposal for the next four books in the series (in other
words-I got fired).
I was devastated. But life goes on. Happily, The Princess Diaries series WAS selling well, and when I broached the subject of continuing The Mediator series with HarperCollins my Princess Diaries
publisher, they agreed to not only publish two new books in the series,
but purchase the previous books in the series and reprint them. I'm
eternally grateful to HarperCollins for breathing new life into The Mediator series, and allowing me to finish it up the way I'd planned to.
I have no plans on continuing The Mediator series past
six books at this time. I'm happy with where I've left Suze and Jesse
in TWILIGHT, and hope readers are as well. To continue the series would
mean to introduce further conflict into Suze's world, and I feel like
she deserves a rest after everything she (and I) has been through with
this series. I'm grateful to all the readers who've stuck by this
series, and hope you'll look forward to the new paranormal series I'll
be writing in the future!
Thank you!
Love,
Meg
11 comments:
Hm,vedem peste tot in ultimul timp in materie de carti zombie si fantome, si nici una din descrieri nu ma captiveaza chiar atat de tare. Ma cam plictisesc de toti zombie.
Giddusadik spune-ne ce-ti place!!!! te-am mai rugat... altfel te voi certa si pe tine prin comentarii nu doar pe C...:))
Mie mi se par interesante:))
eu clar m-as speria daca as vedea o fantoma si nu stiu cat de tare ma atrag cartile de genul, nu prea am citit
Nu prea sunt fana a cartilor cu zombie:d
n-am citit carti cu zombie dar mi-as dori. dar sa nu aiba si fantome, ca nu prea-mi plac:D
Mie imi plac cartile de gen. Sa aiba zombie, fantome...tot felu' de creaturi, numa' sa ma sperie.
Si mie imi plac cartile de genul asta. Orice tine de paranormal e ok :X
de seria asta nu auzisem, merci mona, chiar m-a captivat... vreau sa o citesc :x
ce tare e...vb serios...faza e ca toti tipi misto, sexy din carti oar sunt fantome, zombi, vampiri, varcolaci...sau altele...si cand e om...rezulta ca buneciunea e un bad boy...imi place
Da este destul de interesanta aceasta postare dar nu ma omor dupa ea.
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