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Caldwell and Thomason began writing the novel just a week after their own graduations in 1998. They had originally intending to take a road trip across country after the book’s completion, but “little did we know what it takes to write a novel,” Thomason said...
...years later, using mostly the phone and Internet to communicate, the pair finished the novel, a combinatiaon of mystery, suspense and a little romance. When asked about how they managed to write the novel as a team, Thomason responded, “We had that advantage of knowing each other and each other’s writing styles… It was easy to find a unified voice more quickly...
...actual process, Thomason said, “we would brainstorm ideas and scene structures and characters, and then one of us would take a stab at writing a first draft of a chapter, and then the other one would rewrite/edit and shape, and ultimately that was the process that we kept with.” He adds that “it’s changed so much over the past six years over who was doing the initial writing and who’s been doing the rewriting...
...Thomason said the biggest challenge of the novel was in fact, trying to blend in all the different themes. He described it as “a many-headed monster. It’s a thriller, it’s a mystery or its somewhere in between, it’s a book about books, it’s a book about friendship, love and obsession and about fathers and sons...
...Thomason said the book’s genre was something that the two struggled with. “If you write the novel in a certain way it’s a historical novel, and if you write it in another way it’s a romance, or another way it’s a thriller,” he says. “Because there was so much we wanted to accomplish in the novel, inevitably the most difficult challenge was balancing in 380 pages a novel which is about 100 different things...