At what point did you decide how Alcatraz 5 would end? I mean, obviously you always knew that Alcatraz was going to end up on the altar, but at what point did you decide Attica’s fate?
Pretty much right from the start. After four books of Alcatraz telling everyone he’s a coward and a liar, there needed to be a truly horrible event to justify his feeling like a failure and refusing to accept the hero worship. I hesitated about putting that in a kid’s book, but ultimately it was necessary for the story. Without a real, tragic experience in his life, Alcatraz’s pessimism would have just seemed silly.
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