Random Facebook Comments, Questions, and Answers

Commenter 1:  So excited for COLD! After the last one, it made me curious to reread the beginning and even though I remembered most of it, I was drawn in yet again and read the first 10 books! Still loved it! Gotta say...Made me miss some voices that are no longer there though! Love this series!

Commenter 2:  I reckon they will come back somehow.

RJC: No. Except in flashbacks or legitimate time travel, I don’t bring back dead characters because it cheapens the emotional turmoil I put my readers through and that seems manipulative to me. Since I hate it when it’s done to me, I try not to do it to you.

 

Commenter 1: I finished this. I wanna take Sienna from you until you can behave nicely towards her. That was truly heart wrenching.

RJC: You say that now, but a series in which I was nice to her and nothing bad ever happened would have you going, “This used to be a good series, but now it’s unbelievably f—-ing boring, I don’t know if the author died or what-“ pretty quick.

Commenter 1: To be fair, I say this after every book. But this time I actually want to cuddle her and tell her that you're sorry. This book was truly heart breaking. Tough decisions that I don't think I could have made.

I'll be waiting for the next installment of this series, and while I wait, I'll be reading the Liars and Vamps series. I fear that more heart breaking is going to be happening over there too.

RJC:<Is not sorry.

Look, I can either write stories that move you or ones that don't. Emotional movement is going to require some discomfort. Lack of is booooooooooring. And I'm just going to point this out because I don't think anyone notices - I HAVEN'T KILLED ANYONE IN A REALLY LONG TIME. (Character-wise, I mean.) That wasn't already dead. Like...no major characters in this entire series. And I still ruin you all on the regular. So...I could start doing that again, if you'd like, but I tried to push myself in some new artistic directions to make you lot squirm. I don't think you realize how much fun I'm having tormenting you here.

In all seriousness, I'm a big fan of happy endings for my characters. But it's not the end yet, so I can't make her *too* happy. She's got problems to solve.