I didn’t want to bore them, so I tried to make it as clean as possible. I decided I was making a story that thrilled readers, not a scientific paper. You know, I read many articles on the brain and on body microchips, but in the end, I threw it all out. What are some of the ways you’ve conducted research for this novel? Any interesting stories there? I had to stay true to my characters, and realized I needed more time for Callie to process the information, so I moved that earlier. I always had the big twist in there, but originally it appeared closer to the ending. Later, I offered to create an outline to show my publisher to be sure they knew where I was going with it. At that time, ENDERS was just a paragraph. What was your initial inspiration for ENDERS? How did the story’s premise develop through the early days of your writing process? I communicate with many of them via Twitter and email and I knew they would be disappointed if book two didn’t have the twists and surprises that book one did. I write YA and about half of my readers are teens.

Another weight I felt on my shoulders had to do with reader expectations. I’d never written a manuscript under those conditions. And I had daily social media commitments, but I was also writing the sequel. After my initial tour, I continued to travel about once a month to conferences and appearances. Also, I had no idea how demanding promotion would be for STARTERS. As you can imagine, there was intense pressure. What was it like writing the follow-up to that? Your first book, STARTERS, was an internationally best-selling sensation, a phenomenal feat for a debut novel. So Callie is about to give herself up to the Old Man when she’s kidnapped by a guy who claims to be the only person who can help her defeat the Old Man.īut can she trust him in this world where no one is who they seem? In fact, all the ex-body donors are in danger of being turned into human bombs.

In ENDERS, Callie has shut down Prime Destinations but the Old Man can still access her chip and control her. But one senior plans to do more than party she plans to murder someone. where desperate teens rent out their bodies to seniors, so they can be young again temporarily. Amidst the maelstrom of preparing for one of the most anticipated YA releases of the year, Lissa sat down with THE BIG THRILL to take readers behind the scenes of her world and her upcoming book.ĮNDERS is the sequel to STARTERS, a YA thriller set in a future L.A. How does a powerful new name in fiction follow up a debut of that magnitude? With ENDERS, the sequel to STARTERS, which hits shelves next month.

Lissa Price burst onto the scene in 2012 with her debut YA thriller, STARTERS, an international bestseller published in thirty countries that garnered several awards and spots on a slew of “Best of 2012” lists.

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