Writers aren’t supposed to have favourites of their own books, but Angel is very special to me … I’ve known and loved the characters for a long time.Jst finished reading it and it is freaking AWESOME!!!!! I completely recommend it, a beautiful read i promise you <3 Enjoy! Suddenly I knew that Alex was an angel killer, and that Willow was a half-angel.Īngel happened quite quickly after that it seemed to write itself. With one of those almost-audible clicks that writers sometimes get, the two story ideas came together into a glorious whole. What if angels weren’t really what they seemed? What if we only thought they were kind, but in fact they had their own agenda? What if they were really beings to be feared, instead of admired?
Rather than focusing on the religious aspects of angels, these books were about something more: the idea of angels as very personal helpers to humans, friendly beings who you could call on for anything from helping you find a parking space to saving your life.Īnd as I looked at all the titles, I thought… Then in a bookstore one day, I saw a display of non-fiction books about angels.
So, the story stayed in the wardrobe of my mind for a long time – taken out occasionally to think about, but nothing more. I wanted this to be an action-packed, epic story, but also essentially a romance. If Alex was a real-life hit man, then a happy ending wouldn’t be very likely! And I like happy endings. Though I kept writing snippets of the story (it nagged and nagged at me, really wanting to be told!), I knew that the premise as it stood wouldn’t work. I loved the feel of this, but that was as far as I got for several years. The two of them join forces instead, and fall in love. Once I had that, I had the rough premise of the story: suddenly I knew that Willow had psychically seen something that she shouldn’t have, and Alex was the teenaged hit man hired to kill her. Then her name changed to Willow, and I realised that not only was she psychic, but that she loved tinkering around with cars. Willow came to me at the same time that Alex first did – her name was Jhia at that point – but she didn’t feel fully formed until I started thinking about a contemporary storyline.
He refused to go away, in fact! And over the years, I began to wonder about redoing his story completely, and placing him in a contemporary setting. Nothing came of that particular novel, but Alex always stayed with me. He first came to me as a character almost twenty years ago, when he was a thief in a fantasy setting – an expert with knives rather than guns.
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