Kristen Ashley Instagram – It’s Question of the Week time! This week’s question comes from Tina Sparks Autry: “How do you keep all your characters & timelines straight!?!?” My answer: Back in the day, when I only had 20-30 (40) books published, this was no sweat. My characters lived in my head (they still do, but 90+ books in, it’s crowded up there). I could pull anything for you if you asked me about it from the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Fantasyland and Chaos series. Then shit got real. HA! Now, I take copious notes about all books and all series. Each hero or heroine (or future hero or heroine) has their own “bible” which includes everything from what they look like to sayings they have to what car they drive, past relationships, their history, how they take their coffee, EVERYTHING! There are also “bibles” on places of business, timelines, things I need to remember for future books in the series, and more. The earlier books did not have these copious notes. In order to bring you the bonus content for the Rock Chick books, Darius and Malia’s story, and start writing Avenging Angels, I spent months (and I mean months) reading that series, writing hundreds of pages worth of pertinent details on just about everything (I mean, the secondary characters file for these books alone is 23 pages long), organizing all this info and typing it out. Shoo! I hope to roll back to all my series and do this so I have it on hand for crossovers and…ahem…when I finally complete some series that have long needed that final book. I will admit, I’ve made some mistakes along the way. It’s a crap-ton to keep on top of. But this new system of keeping very detailed notes helps tremendously. There you have it! Stay tuned for more Questions of the Week! Rock On!