Q: The majority of the book is told from the point of view of Maxim, and it comes after you revisited “Fifty Shades” from the male point of view as well. So I went last March and everything sort of fell into place, and I was able to finish the book. But with Alessia, I had to go to Albania to get a better idea of what she is like and where she’s from and all of that, because it’s actually very difficult to find information about Albania. And then over the years they’ve slowly crystallized. I had the rough draft I’d written, but I didn’t really understand the characters at all. But it didn’t start with the characters, it started with the idea. And from that small idea I just kept noodling at it and noodling at, and this whole story was born. Did they appear in your head mysteriously?Ī: The initial idea was me just noodling away as you do, and I was wondering what it would be like if you fell in love with your cleaner. Eventually I managed to get them onto the page. I wrote a very rough draft of it in 2009, so it’s actually been with me before “Fifty.” And I’ve been trying to silence these characters in my head for a long time. How did you find a new story?Īnswer: This story has been with me for a very long time. Question: You’ve spent so much time on the “Fifty Shades” series. The famously media-averse author spoke with The Republic by phone about her latest No. Now, after the movie trilogy and five bestsellers, including two retelling “Fifty Shades” from the point of view of jet-setting fetishist Christian Grey, James will be in Tempe on May 6 for a meet-and-greet signing of “The Mister,” a new romance about a spoiled English earl who falls for his cleaning lady, an Albanian immigrant with a traumatic history.
“Fifty Shades of Grey” was the British writer’s first published book (in 2011), but it wasn’t her first novel project.
James’ out-of-the-blue success story – how she started writing “Twilight” fan fiction and turned it into the “Fifty Shades” book-and-movie juggernaut – is true enough, but it does leave out a few steps.
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