Also, I think that when she gets to the mansion, Royal is insistent that his sons need to treat her with respect because she’s had a tough life, etc. Wait, how about they were military buds? SEALs!Įlle: First scene should be her stripping and the new daddy showing up and hauling her away.Įlle: Five. Let me think up some other screwed up family tree. Jen: Ella is the child of the man’s druggie brother… Here’s an accurate representation of our email plotting process: A few reviewers have picked up on the fact that the name of our heroine is a riff off of Cinderella and a rags-to-riches story. We knew there’d have to be a lot of plot twists and turns of unexpected proportions to make this story super fun to write.Īny specific inspiration for Ella or the Royals, or did they just come to you as so many characters do? And we both wanted the story to be over-the-top-soap-opera in style.
We knew she still had to have a girly side but also possess natural survival instincts that ultimately guide her. We wanted to write a heroine who was tough-as-nails, someone who hadn’t been hardened by her past, but rather, was wiser for it. How did the idea for The Royals take shape? A very rich man with five sons adopts his deceased best friend’s estranged teenage daughter from the wrong side of the tracks. At no time did either one of us say, “Let’s end this on a cliffhanger!” But it just ended up being the right ending for this story. And where it ended was a very natural stopping point.
By the time we got to the end of Book 1, we realized we had so much more of her story to tell. We set out to write this story about Ella, a survivor alone in the world, who finds herself thrown into new and tumultuous circumstances. We never set out to write a book with a cliffhanger.
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