Interview: Rebecca Maizel

I want to start by giving a warm welcome to Rebecca Maizel, author of Infinite Days. I absolutely adored this book and immediately wrote Rebecca to ask for this interview, and to my absolute delight, she agreed!

What’s your favorite quote from Infinite Days?

In response to Lenah seeing Justin and Tracy laughing in the library:

“At Wickham, Tony was my only companion. His friendship kept me company as well as all the memories of my vampire life, piling on and on in my mind like a stack of books, each memory a leather binding, reaching higher and higher toward an endless ceiling.”

Rhode’s love for Lenah is overwhelming and gut-wrenching, and he places her above and before any other. Did you worry how readers might react to Lenah having love interests other than Rhode?

I didn’t worry. You can’t worry when you’re writing how your readers will react. You have to write for yourself, for the characters and for the story they need to tell. And yes, Rhode rules.

Were there any scenes that were cut in the editing process you wish had made it into the book?

I had a different opening – Lenah wakes up in a library in the first version of Infinite Days and debates whether or not she should murder the librarian.

Can you give us one fun fact we might not know about Infinite Days? Something about the story itself or the writing process?

The way Justin looks is based off of the hottest roommate I ever had in my life. Not entirely but the height and the “glowing” sort of aura. SO CUTE.

(This is me shaking my head that none of my roommates ever looked like that!)

If you were Lenah, would you have made the same choice to become human knowing the price that needs to be paid?

Well, Lenah doesn’t know Rhode will die. She knows it’s a possibility but she doesn’t know it will happen for sure. I think if I was Lenah and I was reaching the edge of insanity as she was at the end of her vampire life, yes, I probably would. I imagine her existence would have been nearly unbearable.

If you could interview any literary character, who would it be and what would you ask them?

Jo March from Little Women and I would say: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY YES WHEN LAURIE ASKED YOU TO MARRY HIM!!!!

What’s the most interesting question you’ve been asked as an author?

I did an interview with http://allthingsurbanfantasy.blogspot.com/ and the interview there was really fun. She also wrote a fantastic review, well thought out.

I have thought about Lenah, Rhode and their entire story almost every day since I finished the book a week ago. What’s the last book you read that had a story and characters you just couldn’t stop thinking about?

Wow, thank you so much. Their history is a really long one and their love has literally spanned centuries. So, thank you.

I read AM Jenkins’ novel Beating Heart and I am OBSESSED with Ethan. The author does such an incredible job setting up the relationship between Ethan and the Ghost that haunts his house. AWESOME.



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