Sue Czarnomski asked A. Meredith Walters:

Just when your male leads can't fall anymore, you push them a little further until they bottom out, like Clayton, Maxx & to a certain degree Flynn. Their pain is written honestly. The book endings are not gift wrapped w/a cure, marriage & baby--but w/the character on the mend & headed for eventual happiness, making for a more realistic story. How do you approach the endings & do you struggle w/how the leads end up?

A. Meredith Walters I always start each book by writing the ending first. I have to know where the characters are going before I can write the rest. With the books I write I think it's imperative that they be realistic. And life doesn't give us ends wrapped up neatly in pretty bows. They're ugly and hard and don't always give us exactly what we want. I feel like Clay, Maxx, and Flynn deserve that realism. I want them to have their HEA but not before they jump through some hoops first. :-)

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