Colin asked Stuart Gibbs:

I've really enjoyed reading your new "Charlie Thorne and The Last Equation" book. Some of the characters in that book reminds me of and resembles some of the characters in your "Spy School" books. While reading other books, I've noticed that characters in books by the same author are often similar to each other, even when the books are totally different. Is this something that authors have to learn how to deal with?

Stuart Gibbs I'm not really sure which characters you are talking about. Authors strive to make all of our characters different, but sometimes we like to play up the same themes. For example, it is very important to me that all of my main characters be extremely smart, so I give them all that same character trait.

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