Wouldn’t it be wonderful to think that authors put out books only when creativity strikes? Alas, the realities of the publishing world differ from that dream, and perhaps few know it better than Christopher Moore. A successful author by all accounts, Moore has 20 novels under his belt, including 3 within the Vampires in San Francisco series: Bloodsucking Fiends (1995), You suck (2007), and Bite Me (2010). Back in 2010 Moore sat down for an interview with Express. Asked about when he first thought of expanding his initial vampire story, here’s what he had to say:

“I would think it almost had to be 10 years ago. You’d love it all to be creatively motivated, but the fact is, publishers would like you to put out a book a year when you’re a popular fiction author. And there are some books that I just can’t put out that quickly. They require too much research. So I thought I could do a big book then a little book. And the vampire books made sense — they’re set in a town that I’m very familiar with and they’re full of characters I’m very familiar with. So I proposed it to my publisher maybe nine years ago as a way to expand it. Now, I always thought I could do a sequel to the original book, which I wrote in 1994 and published in ’95, but I hadn’t actually proposed it as a bigger piece of work — a trilogy — until several years later. But basically, I thought I could write these books quickly enough that I could satisfy deadlines to the publisher.”

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