What does “Many journeys, one voice” mean?

It’s simple. Every character I’ve ever written is actually based on me.

Me, Jen.

Women. Men. Sorcerers. Soldiers. Children. Every character relates back to my own viewpoint and experience.

I come up with characters and then put them into situations, usually very difficult ones, and I try to imagine what it would feel like to be them, with all of their history and baggage, at that moment.

If I were Aster Wood from Magic Doorways, how would I react to a girl who could lift stones with the flick of an eye?

If I were Bree of Eagleview from Light Chaser, how would I respond to an evil sorcerer trying to kill me?

What if I were Riley from Lens watching a suicidal man, a friend, trying to jump off a building?

What would I do if I were them?

I also play this out in my most demented characters, evil characters.

If I were Torin from Light Chaser Legends, what would I do to respond to my young daughter acting smart at the dinner table? I sit there in front of the computer and try to put myself into that idea of rage that Torin feels, rage that is ongoing in his life and only ever growing.

How would I respond, then?

When I say, “Many journeys, one voice,” that voice, my voice, is the thread that ties all of my work, all of me, together. I write in wildly different genres, and I’ve got projects in the works that will widen my body of work even further. But my voice is always there with you no matter which book of mine you read; I am always there with you.

So be comforted in the knowledge that I will not abandon you as I move from genre to genre, journey to journey. And thanks for coming along.