Here’s the transcript of the interview with author Kathy Reichs. She wrote this week’s episode of Bones and the show is loosely based on her life.

Q: I was wondering, do you see Brennan as two separate people: The character on TV and one that your readers know?

Kathy: No, I really don’t. I think of book Tempe and TV Tempe and I think of TV Tempe as an earlier point in book Tempe’s life. She’s 30-something rather than 40-something. She’s unmarried. She‘s living in Washington, which I find very appropriate because that’s where I started my career at the Smithsonian. It’s the very first place I ever worked with skeletons, so I think of TV Tempe as a prequel.

Q: Were you told which intern to use and what needed to happen in the B-plot line of “Witch and Wardrobe” or was that your specific idea?

Kathy: That was pretty much formulated by the executive producers. I was told that we were going to be using Clark.

Q: Well, we just had our hundredth episode of Bones not long ago. I was wondering how you see the longevity of the show.

Q: Kathy: Well, I think we should go to a thousand episodes. Yes, what do I know, but everything I hear is that we’re going strongly. It’s been picked up for the sixth season, of course, and that hopefully we can go several more beyond that.

Q: You’re on Twitter. How do you see social networking becoming such an important part of promotion and interacting with fans?

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I just hung up from the conference call interview with author Kathy Reichs. Her books and life were the inspiration for the TV series Bones. She was delightful and talkative and everyone seemed to enjoy talking to her.

Of course, I will post the entire transcript of the interview as soon I can, but here are a couple of bits of info to tease you and get you to check back for the entire interview.

Kathy answered my question with advice for anyone aspiring to become a forensic anthropologist and she seemed pleased that some of you are now considering that as a career. [Thanks for the question, Daphné]

She told us her opinion about Booth and Brennan getting together.

She also clarified a bit about how the book character of Tempe is similar and different from the TV Tempe and where each of them is similar or different from her. It’s pretty cool, I can’t wait to post it for you!

Karen Jobim asked about the rumor that Kathy is writing a young adult novel. Kathy said that she is working one and it will be out in November. She gave a touch of info about the new character that this novel will involve and it’s not Temperance! She has another Tempe novel coming out in August too.

Be sure to check back for the entire interview!

As you may already know by now, Kathy Reichs wrote the upcoming new Bones episode entitled The Witch in the Wardrobe. She’s the author of many great novels that involve a main character named Temperance Brennan. Her Tempe is very different from the TV Tempe, but a very cool character, regardless.

Kathy Reichs is also a very well known forensic anthropologist and Hart Hanson has said that he loosely based the Bones series on her. So she’s a fascinating woman with a lot of great insight on the show.

Now I just found out that I will be able to participate in an interview with her this Friday. I’m thrilled, of course, but would like to ask some questions that you would like to know too. So please leave a comment with your questions and I’ll do my best to ask the most popular ones.

Thanks so much, as always! I look forward to reading your questions and to the interview!!

Here are a few group photos of the cast of Bones, with a couple of the show’s executives thrown in for good measure. There are also a few shots of author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the inspiration for Bones.

BONES cast members (L-R) Michaela Conlin, David Boreanaz, executive producer Hart Hanson, Emily Deschanel, John Francis Daley, Tamara Taylor, TJ Thyne and executive producer Bay Josephson arrive on the red carpet at BONES 100TH EPISODE CELEBRATION Weds. April 7 at 650 North in Hollywood, CA
[Photo: ©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Gregg DeGuire/FOX]

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