Comments on: What A Tangled Web We Weave with Lorelei James

By: Lorelei James

Lorelei James — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:38:51 +0000

Shelley – Hope you’re having fun at the conference – thanks for letting me sub :)

Leah – whoa, 6 generations? that’s amazing.

Hee hee – hey Jess, thanks for stopping by, can’t wait until our Menage and More antho comes out…

By: Jess Dee

Jess Dee — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:24:26 +0000

I tend to brush over the family trees in the beginning of a book, and then refer back to them once I’ve gotten to know the characters.

A series would be different however. I’d study the tree at the beginning of the book, and reminisce about all the characters I’ve already met.
Jess

By: Shelley Munro

Shelley Munro — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:08:52 +0000

Hi Lorelei – several people have mentioned Stephanie Lauren’s Cynster series. She’s giving away a small booklet with details of all her books, along with a family tree at the conference.

By: Leah Braemel

Leah Braemel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:41:28 +0000

YES! I have done family trees where I’ve gone back five or six generations. Especially if it’s a paranormal where my characters lived longer lives, or Historicals where I had to figure out who had what title.

I was going to mention the Cynster family tree, I think Julia Quinn had one for her Bridgerton series, too, didn’t she? As does Lynsay Sands for her Argeneau vampire series. I love ‘em! So helpful as a reader (and especially for the writer) when you’re dealing with series.

By: Lorelei James

Lorelei James — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:30:26 +0000

Waving at Kristie

Barb I hope I get a chance to fill out that tree with more books!

Renee, Laurens’ family tree was one I looked at for ideas…

Esther, I have that same problem, with wanting to write stories for every character.

Thanks Tempest, I do so adore this cover

Gabriella, I hear you on the confused part, but now I have no excuse

By: Tempest Knight

Tempest Knight — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:26:55 +0000

Congrats on the new release! Love the cover. Very sexy.

By: Gabriella Hewitt

Gabriella Hewitt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:10:45 +0000

Family trees are interesting but I generally skip over them. I am an easily confused person. Heck, I am lucky if I know my own family tree outside my own household. HEHE

By: Esther Rose

Esther Rose — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:36:24 +0000

I agree w/ Barb: family trees on long running sagas are a big help. I do refer to them often. Sometimes, when I find characters on the trees that I didn’t read a lot about in the books, I start to make up backstories for them!

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:44:15 +0000

Love the family tree! It’s really going to help out as the series continues and gets larger. I know I’ll reference to it.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:27:42 +0000

I love family trees. Especially on long running sagas. Stephanie Laurens’ Cynster series is an example. There is no way we would be able to keep track of who did what and if we had the books in the right order without the family tree. I read all four of your westerns in 3 days and I had to write down when they were published so I read them in the right order. If that would have been in the front with the book order, I would have know which order to read them and not have to carry a postit note around stuck on my ebookreader LOL.