Comments on: Me, talking about Wolfbreed – and Signings http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2009/10/me-talking-about-wolfbreed-and-signings.html thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:00:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: S Andrew Swann http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2009/10/me-talking-about-wolfbreed-and-signings.html/comment-page-1#comment-10155 S Andrew Swann Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:13:29 +0000 http://www.sandrewswann.com/?p=2030#comment-10155 [Note Here be Spoilers] The original ending was a tad more ambiguous, and, in fact I didn't know for sure that Lilly would survive the penultimate chapter until I wrote it. I decided against killing her off because that would have been a cop-out. The last scene could have gone in several directions, and Anne over at Spectra nudged me in the direction I went. It required a little re-writing of Uldolf, as he doesn't have an easy task in that scene. [Note Here be Spoilers]

The original ending was a tad more ambiguous, and, in fact I didn’t know for sure that Lilly would survive the penultimate chapter until I wrote it. I decided against killing her off because that would have been a cop-out. The last scene could have gone in several directions, and Anne over at Spectra nudged me in the direction I went. It required a little re-writing of Uldolf, as he doesn’t have an easy task in that scene.

]]> By: aeros51 http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2009/10/me-talking-about-wolfbreed-and-signings.html/comment-page-1#comment-9984 aeros51 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:37:52 +0000 http://www.sandrewswann.com/?p=2030#comment-9984 Since you alluded to the ending, could you elaborate a little on why you went with the "upbeat ending" instead of a tragic ending? For most of the novel, I was anticipating a gut-wrenching tragedy with how you had interacted the characters in the flashbacks and the level of hell that you were putting them through (but, I admit that dragging the protagonists through the seven levels of hell is a bit of a trademark for your novels no matter what the ending). Was this planned from the beginning or did you agonize over this? Since you alluded to the ending, could you elaborate a little on why you went with the “upbeat ending” instead of a tragic ending? For most of the novel, I was anticipating a gut-wrenching tragedy with how you had interacted the characters in the flashbacks and the level of hell that you were putting them through (but, I admit that dragging the protagonists through the seven levels of hell is a bit of a trademark for your novels no matter what the ending). Was this planned from the beginning or did you agonize over this?

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