In fact, I can talk about climate science all day. Reason 4: Climate changeĬompass Rose is climate fiction. However, I will promise to consistently deliver stories with badass women. Sometimes that means dystopian pirates, other times dark fairytales. I’m only 28 and new at this author business, after all. I also enjoy experimenting with different styles and genres.

After writing about endless warm oceans and dark submarines, I needed a breath of bitterly cold fresh air ( Thorn). However, sometimes I need to spice things up. I love that I get to spend years living in the crazy worlds I come up with. I want to give you the best book I can, and that’s taking a while. Don’t worry, I’m working on it, but let’s just say that if I were writing Harry Potter, he’d still be trapped in the Chamber of Secrets. Rowling had filing cabinets devoted to the Harry Potter series with each book carefully planned out (so she says…)? Well, if you saw my system of organization you’d understand why I’m behind. It was also the first series I’d ever attempted. I learned so much about writing while working on it, and it required a massive amount of research and an obscene number of total rewrites. Okay, so maybe this is more of an excuse than a reason, but I stand by it. Thorn took precedence after Compass Rose simply because it was the closest to done. While writing Compass Rose, I was also drafting Thorn, the yet-to-be-titled Robin Hood, and a YA trilogy, just to name a few of the things on my backlist.

I need to have several stories in varying stages of production in order to be my most productive. Some writers work on a single project at a time and I envy them. Reason 1: I work on multiple projects at once So I’ll do my best to account for my actions. I can’t speak for other authors, but I can tell you why I didn’t immediately sit down to write the sequel to Compass Rose in the hopes that you will forgive me. Martin, I am referring to you.) As an author, however, I have to say I’ve grown a lot more sympathetic to Martin’s plight, even as my inner reader fumes. You start reading a series, get invested, and then the author doesn’t produce the sequel for 6+ years.

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