Meet the Crew of the Nanshe
I love a good "hiring the crew" montage. The uneasy gathering in the warehouse in Ronin. Viola Davis approaching the wives of her husband's dead crew in Widows. Danny Ocean recruiting his accomplices in Ocean's Eleven. As I started writing the Nanshe Chronicles, I lived through my own crew-hiring montage. I already knew Raj and Lasadi, Starla's parents — but I had no real ideas about who the rest of the characters would be. They had to be fun, flawed characters that I wanted to spend an entire series with. They had to have chemistry with each other. They had to…