Ann asked Julia Glass:

I have read many of your books and they are so real, and the characters and plots are so vividly portrayed. Ms. Glass, when I read your books, I have noticed "crossovers" with certain characters, which is wonderful, and deeply satisfying. Is this part of an overall plan when you write, or does this just come from the muse within? Thank you for your books; they are brilliant!

Julia Glass Thank you, Ann! I'm glad you enjoy immersing yourself in my fictional worlds--which, as you can see, have a tendency to overlap. Sometimes I'm surprised by the return of a character--as I was when Fenno, the hero of "Three Junes," decided to barge back in while I was writing "The Whole World Over"--and at other times it's unavoidable or deliberate. The impetus for writing "And the Dark Sacred Night" was a recurring desire I'd had to revisit the character Lucinda Burns from "Three Junes." I knew that would entail bringing back her husband, Zeke, and her two surviving children. I also knew that her memories of her lost child would be important--but I had no idea, at first, that I would go back in time to portray him as a teenager. It's an interesting challenge to create the younger version of an adult character one brought to life ten years before. An uber-flashback of sorts!

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