![]() ![]() Happily, my friends, the writers Margaret Stohl and Pseudonymous Bosch, invited me to go to Hawaii with them, on a writer's retreat. I wrote about 200 pages and then I got stuck. What if I didn't do it right? What if my fans are disappointed? What if. I feel a huge sense of accomplishment at being able to END it after all these years - how satisfying to resolve all the mysteries, answer all the questions, and give the characters the send-off they deserve!īut when actually started writing the finale, I was paralyzed by fear - I had been holding so many secrets, many revelations, close to the vest for so many years, hinting at things, but never really letting anything slip … until now, when all is revealed, layer upon layer. It's been an amazing journey, and now that the finale has been published, incredibly bittersweet. Melissa: So what is it like to end a series? A series that has been part of my life since December 2004? That began when I was still a relatively young-ish person, and that has ended now that I am a middle-age mother of a 6-year old. ![]() But how does the author feel? Melissa de la Cruz joins us now to examine the variety of emotions she's felt over finishing her Blue Bloods series, which concludes with Gates of Paradise. Readers are often bummed when a favorite romance series comes to an end. ![]()
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