Well the first book in the series was the one that I sort of fell in love with and that first book is what I based the pilot episode on.

So the pilot episode is very similar story-wise, and then I felt once we did that, it was a decision that I made just at that point let the series take on a life of its own and have it just become its own thing. So [the book] was very influential on the first episode and from there we just kind of riffed on it.