What is it like to end The Zero Trilogy?
By Summer Lane
This is the first time I have ended a published series.
Currently I’m writing the seventh installment of The Collapse Series – and I
don’t even want to imagine how sad I’ll be when I reach the end of that story.
With the Zero Trilogy, I’ve been on this journey of
completing Elle’s story for about two years. It would be difficult to pinpoint the exact
moment that Elle’s character jumped into my mind, because I’ve always wanted to
write a story about a very young but very strong female character in the apocalypse.
The Zero Trilogy seemed to almost write itself at times. Elle’s character
development was an organic thing, something that I was able to cultivate like a
rose. Poetic, I know. But true.
To finally end a story is a brand new sensation to me. I have
ended stories before – but those stories are all unpublished, private works
from the mind of a private girl in the wee hours of the night. To finish a
story that I have shared with endless readers is almost frightening – I don’t
want to say goodbye to Elle! Thankfully, her story intertwines nicely with The
Collapse Series, so this isn’t my final farewell. Not yet.
It was supremely refreshing to be able to tie the loose ends
of her story together, and to explain the unexplained. I love and adore the new
characters of End of Day. Cheng is my favorite male lead of the moment. He’s
devilishly handsome and mischievous, the perfect companion for a girl as quick
and dangerous as Elle.
In the end, I am thankful for every new opportunity I’ve had
because of this trilogy, and I am eternally grateful for the support from the
reading and blogging community, who really gave me my start as a writer, and
made Elle Costas and Bravo the bomb dog a phenomenal fictional force to be
reckoned with.
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