Author Interview with Jennifer L. Armentrout

# 1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout Lives in West Virginia.

All the rumors you heard about her state aren’t true.

Well, mostly. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don’t Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen.

Jennifer also writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J. Lynn. The Gamble Brothers Series (Tempting the Best Man/Tempting the Player) and Wait for You. Under her pen name, she is published with Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

Fans of the Lux series are dying to get their hands on the newest book, ORIGIN. What can we expect from it?
Origin is a game changer in the series. There will be several things that I don’t think the readers will see coming. There are new
characters and old ones that you’ll be saying goodbye to.

I have to ask. Why aliens?
I don’t think aliens are as over exposed as some other creatures and you really have no limits or preconceived notions of what an alien is.
So you get to really create something unique.

Both the Lux and Covenant series are going to be wrapping up soon. Do you have another YA series lined up?
Yikes. Wrapping up a series is so scary and I do have two them ending soon. I do have another YA series sitting in the wings, plus a few
standalone novels like Don’t Look Back which releases from Disney/Hyperion in Spring of 2014.

In the Lux series, Katy is a book blogger. You included everything from her writing Waiting on Wednesday posts to freaking out when new books arrived in her mailbox. How fun was it to do that and what encouraged you to include that?
It was a lot of fun doing it. I have a very close relationship with several book bloggers so I was able to pick up on a lot of what they
do and how they feel. And I have book bloggers to thank for any success that I have had, so that was encouragement enough to recognize
them by creating a character like them.

To put it nicely, Daemon was known as a bit of a sarcastic jerk. Was there any difficulty in creating his character? I’m assuming there’s a bit of difficulty in writing about the opposite gender, but if there was, I didn’t notice.
Actually, writing the male character comes easier to me than it does with the female character and I had a lot of fun writing Daemon, because he is such a jerk and says what most people are thinking. The hardest part is walking that fine line between redeemable jerk behavior and not so redeemable.

Did you have any inspiration for any of your characters or is it all just from brainstorming?
Just brainstorming.

You have another book coming out called OBSESSION. We know that it takes place in the same world as Daemon and Katy, but it is an adult novel. Are we going to see any familiar characters in it?
Yes you will!

Opal ended with a bit of a surprising twist that upset almost everyone. Please tell us that this is going to be fixed very soon in the next book?
You’ll just have to read Origin to find out. =D

Has there been any talk about turning any of your books into television series or movies?

Yes. There has been interest, but it is up to the people who make shows and movies to want to do so, but there has been interest.

When you actually get some downtime to read, what are you planning to read next?
Down time? What is that? I can’t wait to read the new Black Dagger Brotherhood book coming out soon.