Was it hard to come back to Rin?
Emily Rodda: It wasn’t hard at all. The final mystery is solved in book five. I had the whole story in my mind when I first started on Rowan of Rin and I’ve been working up to this last book for ten years. JC: Did you find that your writing style had changed over the years? ER: I think the later Rowan books, Rowan and the Zebak and Rowan of the Bukshah, have more action in them. The other elements are the same. They’re probably a bit faster moving. My own children have obviously grown older and I have been affected by what they like to read. In the interim, I’ve written Deltora Quest, and the enormous feedback I got from that made me try to keep sentences reasonably brief and to keep the action going. Rowan of the Bukshah is also quite a bit longer than the others and this worried me at first. But then I thought that it is the last one and I wanted to make sure it is just right. I had a lot of story to tell. I hope everyone likes it. The Rowan books have always been very special to me.
