In the early stages, were you consulted about the series?
Laura It was very separate. We were in New York doing books and they were in Hollywood doing a television show.
The publisher was the one who had sold the television rights and so they had more contact with Jason and the other people doing the show than we did individually.
Mel The books and the show are so different. The characters on the show have different back stories, and both sets of characters experience different things.
They’re really just too different to try and work them back around. It just wouldn’t make sense for the show characters, it would be inconsistent for them to start behaving like or experiencing things that the other characters did.
Laura We get asked that question a lot, and as a writer I would almost be bored doing the same story again.
The show is its own thing. We very much follow Jason Katims’ vision because he’s brilliant and he knows exactly what he wants the show to be.
Mel And we love what he did with the show.
Laura Yeah, we love it, we were big fans.
Mel I also wrote six books between Roswell High, so when we started here my book series of Roswell High was all wrapped up. They got their happy ending and everything. It’s over so it’s fun to get back into that world but it’s different.
