Season two of The Handmaid’s Tale is fast approaching, and fans are eager to find out what the trailer all means when producers attended this weekend’s PaleyFest panel.

“It was a chance to explore what my initial reaction was to the book, which was, ‘Oh my gosh, what happens next?’” show runner Bruce Miller told Entertainment Weekly. “Certain books you really feel like the end of the story is the end of the story; here, you almost feel like the book is the beginning of the story. So we really tried to follow our own curiosity and follow what we think is cool in the book that we didn’t get the chance to explore.”

He also added that author Margaret Atwood is “very much involved” with the show. “She was happy for us to have our own plan,” he shared. “So that kind of encouragement really helps, when you have an author who we respect and love to have as part of the process, to have her blessing on our continuation of her world gives you a large amount of freedom and takes a lot of that pressure off. I think a lot of that pressure is worrying about making people mad, because I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Margaret Atwood mad at me.”