Bruna

Bruna asked Kristan Higgins:

Hello Kristan, I truly enjoy your books. I always wanted to know, when you start writing a book do you already have the story in your mind, or does it come as you go?

Kristan Higgins It makes me very happy when I know what's going to happen in advance. That being said, I don't always get that. In fact, I mostly don't get that. I try to map the book out first, but characters and plots have a way of developing that the writer can't imagine until she's about, oh, 265 pages in. So once I'm there, in the muck and mire of the book, I let go of the outline and just do what seems right for the characters.

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth asked Kristan Higgins:

Is it true that when appearing on very serious workshop panels with Alyssa Day and Elizabeth Hoyt you sometimes bring the tone of the whole thing down by scribbling improbably x-rated cartoons on napkins?

Rebekah

Rebekah asked Kristan Higgins:

Do you have any plans to return to some of your earlier locales like Gideon's Cove, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Connecticut? I would love another peek at some of my favorite couples. You know, just to make sure they are doing OK. :o)

Mona

Mona asked Kristan Higgins:

I've bought, read, and loved your books from the very first one to the very last one. Honestly, I can't get enough of them, and when they are published, I want to read them as slowly as I can so that I can savor them but they are like a bag of chocolate chip cookies....I just gobble them down. But my question: when you started out writing romances, did you add in the humor deliberately or did it just...come out?

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