Ask the Author: Cass Morris
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Cass Morris
Good to meet you, too! Book 2 is drafted and currently with my editor. We don't have a pub date yet, but hopefully it'll be sometime next year.
Cass Morris
I’m currently contracted for three books!
Cass Morris
I have one sister! She’s six years younger than me, so it’s a larger gap and a different relationship dynamic than Aula and Latona have.
Cass Morris
Now that FROM UNSEEN FIRE is done with edits and on its way to printing, I'm working on the second book in the Aven Cycle, which will continue to follow those characters into new places and stranger magics. I'm also working on a space opera with a heroine based on the infamous French swordswoman/opera-singer Julie d'Aubigny.
Cass Morris
The Elements are intent neutral! It's not the magic that might be good or bad, but the use that it's put to, and there are certainly lots of shades of grey. Playing with that expectation is a lot of what's fun about this system. It could be really easy to assume that, say, Shadow and Fracture are inherently negative Elements. But how great -- how necessary -- is the shade from a tree on a hot summer's day? And sometimes the act of breaking is necessary to figure something out or to fix it. Conversely, it can be easy to assume that Light is good, but as some damn fools found out during the eclipse, stare at too much of it, and you'll go blind. Any Element can be helpful or harmful, depending on how it's used and to what purpose.
Cass Morris
Marguerite St Just and Percy Blakeney from 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. I never fail to swoon over them, these two proud, passionate people who are just stupid in love with each other but too stubborn to let it be known. I have 'Chapter 16: Richmond' pretty well memorized because of how gorgeous I find the interplay between them.
(Other faves include Rogue and Gambit from the X-Men comics, Han and Leia from Star Wars, and Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood. I imprinted *hard* and early on a certain type!)
(Other faves include Rogue and Gambit from the X-Men comics, Han and Leia from Star Wars, and Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood. I imprinted *hard* and early on a certain type!)
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