![]() Why make the three protagonists of 3 Willows a bit younger than the Sisterhood friends? ![]() I decided to create a new friendship in the shadow of the old friendship. I didn’t want to retread the same ground, though I was drawn to some of the same themes as in the earlier novels. I enjoyed my time with the girls in those books and I yearned to go back, yet at the same time wanted to find a way to work around what I’d done already. What inspired you to give 3 Willows the same setting as the Traveling Pants series? ![]() That created a certain pressure, but once I became involved with the new story and characters, those worries faded away. When I was writing the second Traveling Pants book, I knew that I actually had readers, and even though I didn’t know them, I had a relationship with them and I had to uphold my part. It’s so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones. Living up to success can be intimidating. Was it intimidating to embark on subsequent books? ![]() What a happy surprise it is to realize that you can write things that resonate with readers and connect with them emotionally. I loved writing that first book, yet I had quite a bit of fear and uncertainty when I started. How can you know? How can you predict? The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was my first book, and I didn’t know how readers would relate to my ideas and thoughts on paper. ![]()
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