Beautiful Creatures will be getting a spin off series based on two fan favorite characters, Link and Ridley.
Little Brown Books for Young Readers will launch the new series with the e-novella Dangerous Dream on December 17, 2013, followed by the first novel, Dangerous Creatures, on May 6, 2014.
The series is being called Dangerous Creatures. Dangerous Dream takes place at a high school graduation in Gatlin, S.C., where the original series is set. Kate Sullivan, a co-editor on the project says, “I view it very much as a bridge between Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures.”
Dangerous Creatures picks up at the end of the summer, when the characters are packing up for college, she continued. Link tells his conservative mother that he is going to a Christian school, but in fact, as Garcia and Stohl revealed, he is starting a band called Sirensong in New York City. Other characters like Liv and John headed off to Oxford but will make appearances.
“We’re going to have new teen characters, new villains, new settings, and old settings,” said Garcia. “It’s really the best mix of the old and the new.”
When talking to Publishers Weekly Garcia and Stohl noted that their writing process has changed. Originally, the two took turns drafting and revising chapter by chapter. For this series each author will draft an entire book and the other will receive chapters to revise. Together, they create an outline for the novel before they start the writing process.
Each novel in the Dangerous Creatures series will be set in a new location and weave in several familiar faces from the previous series including Lena and Ethan.
Garcia and Stohl will participate in a live Twitter chat on Tuesday, September 17, at 4:00 p.m. PST/7:00 p.m. EST. Fans can ask questions about the new series using the hashtag #DangerousCreatures.