Balthazar’ is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy – with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past. Claudia Gray Read Quote
I’m from New Orleans, and we have a Mardi Gras group called the Chewbacchus. It’s celebrating all things geeky: science fiction, fantasy, ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Men in Black,’ ‘Ghostbusters,’ everything. Claudia Gray Read Quote
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot. Claudia Gray Read Quote
I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I’m going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind. Claudia Gray Read Quote
The main song I listened to with the ‘Firebird’ books was ‘Breath of Life’ by Florence + the Machine. Claudia Gray Read Quote