TheStar.com talks to Margie about Writing and The Beautiful Creatures Novels

TheStar.com talked to Margie on her recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. Margie, talked about her writing, and the end of writing the Beautiful Creatures novels. You can read an excerpt below, but for the entire thing, CLICK HERE.

Fantasy, she feels, is a way of exploring dangerous and powerful emotions and topics. “When you’re writing about supernatural powers you’re writing about emotional power.”

Stohl has just finished the revision for the final book of the Caster series, which will be published in October next year. The book, she says, is so closely connected to the third book that they are almost two halves of one book. And the stakes are very, very high for Lena and Ethan.

“The feeling of writing the last book is like a cross between a funeral, a wedding and a graduation. When I finished writing the draft I cried and when Kami finished writing her part of the draft she cried, and when the editor finished reading it she cried. It’s just so emotional to finally have this world closing,” she says.

After she closes the chapter on the Caster series, Stohl will be working on the Icon series alone without Garcia, which she admits is a scary endeavour.

“Not so much about the writing but about having to leave a successful franchise. It’s scary. What if the readers do not come? What if it doesn’t become an NYT bestseller?” she muses.

While Stohl says there’s a possibility of revisiting Gatlin once more, especially since there’s a movie coming out, she would like to focus on the Icon series now.

“Right now I think it’s important for both Kami and me to explore our own voices. We are going to do that, but we’ll always be friends and the possibility will always remain. I will never say never,” she says with a laugh.