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Friday, January 27, 2017

Easter Eggs and Hidden Gems


   It's not exactly Candy Crush, but there are some hidden gems in the novels which make up the Luminary Saga.
As an author whose sanity is sometimes debatable -- I feel a responsibility to put more attention into the tiny details of my books than the average reader might reasonably be expected to discover. I find little ways to tuck seemingly unrelated items inside the chapters. They’re of my own playful design, an extra **secret** hidden in the pages for my satisfaction more than anything else. At least I thought they were hidden.

    I’ve gotten some fun questions from attentive readers that I think are very clever. Not just because they like my books. (Hey, I really appreciate that too.) But because they’re asking about the Easter eggs.
While the obstacles the protagonists encounter in the books are fairly obvious, and differ from one novel to the next, the secrets don’t stop there.
     Since the first book in the series starts with Luminary, it shouldn’t be surprising to people that many of the descriptive terms have to do with some form of light. Even the beer. Corona -- as one brilliant reader rightly pointed out, is a crown of light.

 And Wendy’s not so secret crush in Beacon?

When the hairdresser gushes and sometimes mimics her favorite actor,
Liam Neeson, it signals something that fans have picked up on. Another perceptive reader discovered that whenever Wendy makes a reference to Liam in any of the books, the next chapter gets a tie-in. Usually its title comes from one of his hit movies.

The final chapter?

And several vigilant readers have spoken up about the secret of the final chapter in each book: it always includes a clue to the title of the next book.
Do the Easter eggs stop there?
I’m not telling. Why spoil the fun of the avid page-turners who are earnestly hunting them down? When they do, I’ll post them.

  Happy Reading,
P.S. Meraux