do you plan to revisit Auguste Lupa in a new novel?
John: The short answer is no. Lupa, who of course is the young Nero Wolfe, was a good crutch for me to lean on in the creation of a character whom I already “knew” to a great degree. Now I’ve got a stable of my very own characters, and more to come, and I wouldn’t want to go back and try to recreate what was in essence a recreation in the first place. That said, I can’t rule out the possibility that Jules Giraud, the narrator in the Lupa books, might not show up in my pages again sometime. Bev: Your novels are huge, complicated books with many characters. When you are working on a new novel, do you have the story pretty well outlined and plotted before you begin the actual writing? John: The way I approach a new book is that I usually conceive of a theme first, and a bare bones kind of plot that might or might not work with that theme. Then, with no thought of how things might turn out, I just start writing and usually go two or three chapters. If I like the way they’re looking, I stop
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