Hi again lovely people! I decided to post a little early. About a month ago I promised some background material on the book, including deleted scenes and then I got so excited when I got the green light to move ahead on What Once was Eden that I completely forgot. Posting this stuff now does two things: it keeps my promise and it helps other sites that are behind to catch up.

A lot of times as I write, something will come up and I'll have to create something that never sees the page or I create something on the surface and don't have time to go into all the details. When those happen, I try to remember to write them down somewhere else in case I need them later. There's a few places in this trilogy where someone starts to say something and gets interrupted. What they would've said is often written down in those notes. Sometimes I have a very specific reason for doing something a certain way and I'll note it down so it stays consistent. What was the purpose of Sajani's locket? Why does the story never take place from Gregor's point of view? What do some of these random words in thieves cant mean? Are the Prequel to Alpha books fact or fiction? What is Farnsbeck's real name? Where did the mask Farnsbeck and Magenta use come from?

Stuff like that goes into a file and I go through it periodically to make sure it's updated and that I've stayed consistent to what I originally thought.

Realize in posting this, I'm not saying it's something a writer should do. It's helpful for me and might be helpful for others.