Should we continue on Nevada and Rogan?
Should we take one of the other characters?
And she said, It would be so lovely to have a book about Catalina.
Credit: ILONA ANDREWS
Catalina is Nevadas second sister and she is an interesting character.
So, its going to be about Catalina.
Shell be in her early 20s and we are going to further explore her character a little bit.
Throughout the whole trilogy, the reader thinks Connor Rogan has no relatives besides his mother.
He has a huge family on his mothers side, but theyre all in Spain.
You cant do that.
Youre my only son.
I will see you walk down the aisle.
I will have this glamorous wedding.
They have to corral Nevada, because Nevadas being a little bit of a Bridezilla.
During the beginning of the wedding, it becomes clear that a family heirloom is stolen.
Catalina is an experienced investigator.
Shes going to retrieve the heirloom so Nevada can wear it during the wedding ceremony.
The novella centers around Catalinas big first case.
She has to navigate very complicated family politics.
She has not to step on anybodys toes, but still find the missing item.
Basically theres a couple of loose ends at the end of the trilogy.
That will be explored in the next trilogy.
How exactly their grandmother went about making sure they were born and so on?
At that point, we were like Ooo, maybe well get to write more of the books.
So we always hoped that we would get to continue the series.
How much can we expect to see of Rogan and Nevada?
Were talking about a little bit in the future, so maybe three or four years.
By that point, its interesting to see what has Baylor Investigations become.
Theres probably an arm now that kind of works more closely with Rogan and his enterprises.
And theres an arm that works with Montgomery.
Leon will be older.
When fans ask him for spoilers, he just tells them.
When we were younger we always watched cartoons like He-Man or Flash Gordon.
It was such an interesting mix of technology and magic.
Wealth, power, all those things.
And introducing magic into it just kind of turns everything on its head.
Its exciting.ANDREW:Anybody can have magic.
He can change shape and assume any human shape that is there.
For me, I dont know.
That would be really, really difficult.
Thats the problem because most of the time our magic has a downside.
Catalina can make you love her, but shes never sure the affection you feel for her is genuine.
I would take Cornelius Harrisons animal mage powers.
That would be fun.
Its sort of a shared reinforcement of us as a team.
We rarely fight about stuff.
We argued about some stuff yesterday.ILONA:We argued about some stuff yesterday in a copy edit.
He wanted to change the age of a child to 18 months versus 13 months.
We kind of had a spat about that, but it lasted probably a minute and a half.
And then when we went out to dinner.
I know people like to imagine us throwing plates at each other, screaming, and slamming doors.
The object here is to put out the best book possible.
We do occasionally argue about who dies because somebodys got to die.
Because everything has a price…It makes us stronger as a couple.
We write very close to each other.
Theres no ego in it thats kind of the key.
Personal success is not as important as team success.
We are a team.
I guess it kind of shaped our marriage.
Do you actually get into positions and is that exciting for you?
And I was like, Oh my god, you did not just ask this.
Not only is it totally inappropriate, but there were children in the audience.
Her daughter was there, and she was mortified.
She turned the color of a raspberry.
That was highly uncomfortable for everybody involved.
We would like to just point out that our characters and us, were separate entities.
We have not killed anybody that we know of, and our characters kill bad guys quite frequently.
It would be a mistake to identify us with our characters.
And do you feel like its something youre going to have to adjust at all?ILONA:No.
Our views have not changed.
We have two daughters.
The issues of consent were discussed in our house very, very early on.
In that first scene, the heroine tells him stop and he stops.
That is a crucial thing.
In real life or in a book, the issue cannot be that you didnt assume consent.
The issue is, is consent given?
The heroine has to say, Im spending the night, I choose to do this.
That is absolutely crucial.There are a lot of very young romance readers.
