A short essay by Carey has been posted to her new publisher’s site. It is titled "On becoming Imriel", and in it she discusses how she ended up writing more Kushiel books after the conclusion of the previous story, and what was difficult about changing to a new first-person point of view while still writing within the same setting and about many of the same characters. We also get some tiny spoilerish tidbits about Kushiel’s Scion.