Nick G asked Roderick Gordon:

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Roderick Gordon The short answer is that I am, but he isn't ... yet. I've found it impossible to leave that world so there's quite a bit of T7 already fleshed out, although whether it will ever see the light of day as a new sequel is another matter. I'd like to think so, but it really needs the tv series to lift the profile of the books for that to happen, or for another couple of thousand of very loyal readers like you to start asking for it! And thank you so much for your kind words about the series - without support like yours, I would never have had the incredible opportunity and honour of continuing with the saga. In answer to your other question, writing about the relationships was very rewarding and exciting because the characters became so real to me that I just knew how they would react to events and to each other. What was also great was to experiment with "what if" scenarios for the plot lines - sometimes thinking up incredibly unlikely developments in the story, then fitting the characters around these developments in an effort to make them seem credible. It's rather like dreaming up an outlandish lie to tell someone, then working like mad to make them believe it. Some of the deaths were extremely difficult to write about; early on I was channeling emotion from events in my own life, but as I progressed through the series I found it was the other way around and the events in the books started to come back at me, and I'd get terribly upset because they were so very real to me. I was reading parts of Deeper again last week to check some background about Cal and I couldn't believe how much it got to me. I won't name them but there are several characters I very much regret losing and wish I could resurrect, but it's too late now.

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