Comment #11's Translation: I join myself to the compliments to Barbara. I have found the excerpts very intriguing, with characters well defned and amusing situations (the scene between Koji and Imai is fantastic, with Kim who imitates the wheel movement).

I'd like to ask to Barbara if when she and Anne have begun to write the first book of the series already had in mind also the plot of those following and the relationship between the characters or if, also begun from a principle idea, then they have changed the stories and characters on working.

It's easier, according to her, to write a single book or a series? Many authors write series, in this moment, and if there is an increasing interest in order to see completed all the stories of the characters sometimes I have been very disappointed from the final result (without count that in Italy often the books are translated without respect the chronological order of the series).

Then: which are her preferred authors (of any kind) and if someone of these have particularly influenced her.

Thanks a lot.

Cristina