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Eoin Colfer

How do you see the twins changing throughout the books?

It was funny for Artemis – I really didn’t envision having a series on my hands so it was OK for him to be quite two dimensional, in that he would be the bad guy, and that he would be slightly redeemed at the end.

Then when it became apparent that I would be doing a series of books I thought, well I’ve got to develop them, he can’t just be the bad guy all the time – that’s a terrible example for everybody. So Artemis slowly moved away from his dark side, towards the light, and that

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