What is being said about the power of love and our inability to control it?
Well, I think the very nature of love – the thing that makes it singular and so powerful – is that it’s totally uncontrollable. Love tears you asunder and you don’t necessarily go back to the way you were. Love is usually depicted as something that’s entirely good, but we all know – perhaps have even experienced – that loving someone can have terrible – sometimes disastrous – consequences. One of the themes explored in The Mistress of The Pearl is the many different and unexpected effects love can have. The Veil of A Thousand Tears is the second volume of The Pearl Saga. Do you find it easier to write sequels, or more difficult? Sequels are always more difficult, because to be consistent you inevitably start painting yourself into a corner. This is, ultimately, what led me to take a break in writing about Nicholas Linnear. That said, writing The Pearl saga is different inasmuch as I planned the series from the beginning. So, for me, planting seeds in each volume that will come to fruit
