Mad though it may sound, while I had little enthusiasm for any other aspect of my legal studies, I found the tax code surprisingly fascinating. Probably a few are still working as journalists. The other Claudia Grays? What a fascinating question! I would hope some of them are writers, but I feel sure not all of them are. What kind of lives do you think the Claudia Grays in other dimensions live? (Are they all writers?) Now, in the sequel, I’m very fond of the Warverse - but we’ll discuss that next year. (Though all the dimensions have their stories to tell.) It’s the most romantic (in every sense of that word), the most dramatic, and the one that I felt I could have written an entire book about on its own. Which was your favourite of the dimensions that Marguerite travels to? I managed to give Perth a little shout-out in the book - you’ll have to look for it! By the end of that tour, I really had the ideas together, and I wrote the first draft of the first scene in Auckland, NZ. The idea had begun to knock around my brain before I got to Australia, but a lot of it really took shape on the flight to Sydney, and I definitely remember working out some very early details while in my hotel room near Cairns. Somehow this hatched into the concept of traveling to entirely new dimensions, but always being drawn to many of the same individuals - whether that meant family members, love interests, friends or even enemies. Essentially, I felt as though I were waking up in a different world every day, and yet the same people (fellow authors, my publicist) were always there. The idea for the FIREBIRD trilogy came to me in 2012, during my back-to-back tours of the US and Australia. We were very excited when we read on tumblr that Australia had a part to play in the inspiration for this story – can you tell us a bit about that? At any rate, the cover image totally captures the concept of traveling through different dimensions. But when we got there and added the type treatment for the title, something just *clicked.* I think somehow the placement of the title makes it feel as though you’re looking through a kind of portal, perhaps. When I first saw it, I liked it tremendously, but we still had some tweaking to do - don’t get me wrong, the image was gorgeous from the start, but we had to fine-tune it a bit to make sure that London looked futuristic enough, and Russia old-school enough, without the images being too busy. Let’s start with the elephant in the room: how to die for is the cover for this book? What did you think when you first saw it? A time and space thriller packed with action, danger and romance, A Thousand Pieces of You is one of our most anticipated books of the year.

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