Ask the Author: Laura Holt
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Laura Holt
At first, yes, but she'll become a main character later in the series.
Laura Holt
The most beautiful flowers always grew in Etta Gray's rose garden. Strange, because the only things she ever planted were already dead.
Laura Holt
I would love to go to Middle Earth and go on an epic adventure with elves, dwarfs, wizards, and hobbits!
Laura Holt
Definitely Lord of Shadows, Violet Grenade, Daughter of the Pirate Queen, and Flame in the Mist, to name a few.
Laura Holt
The mystery of where I put my stuff! I have this terrible habit of misplacing everything, while my daughter has the uncanny ability to always know where it is, even if she didn’t see me put it there. So, a mystery about Seekers (people who are always searching for things) and Finders (people who have a special gift of sight that allows them to find things) would be totally cool!
Laura Holt
I’d have to say Beauty and the Beast. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of a good person hiding inside a monster, as is probably evidenced in my books haha, and how the acts of one individual can help bring that good person to the surface.
Laura Holt
The best thing about being a writer, for me, is the act of writing itself. I love to write. It's just what I do, always has been. It comes as naturally to me as breathing or sleeping, and when I come up with a new idea and flesh it out into a full length story, it’s almost like the words flow out of me of their own volition. In those moments, it feels like it's not me telling the story anymore, but someone else, like I'm part of something so cosmically big that I can't quite describe it because there aren't enough words in the human language. And yes, that means I get a lot of odd looks from people who don’t know what I’m talking about. But that’s okay, because what I want more than almost anything is for my writing to make others feel like they’re a part of something bigger, something more magical than just their mundane everyday existence, too. If I can accomplish that at least, then I know I've used my talent for something good.
Laura Holt
Ugh! Writer's block is the bane of authors everywhere, and I have had more than my share of it, sometimes years at a time. Anyone who knows me would tell you that I'm a giant control-freak, so my initial instinct when my writing is not going the way I want it to go is to fight through it. But I have learned over the years that the best thing I can do is put down the pen, step away from the keyboard, pray that God will reveal the story to me when He's ready for it to be told, and do something else that takes my mind off it. Works every time.
Laura Holt
Write everything down, and I mean EVERYTHING, and don't ever throw anything away. You never know when a note you made for one book that ended up not working out will fit perfectly in another.
Laura Holt
I am a huge fan of multi-tasking, so I'm currently working on a few different projects: editing the rest of the Star Crossed series (almost done), editing The Last Princess series (currently on book one), and writing the first book in The Witch Queen series (currently on chapter 3).
Laura Holt
Really, it all depends. I have gotten inspiration from a number of things: books, movies, TV shows, something that my daughter or someone else says in passing, a dream, a song, the color of the sky, the weather, visiting a new place, being forced to handle an unexpected situation. It's more my mood at any given moment and how something strikes me that decides whether I'm inspired by it or not.
Laura Holt
Believe it or not, the idea for Fathoms Below came from a dream I had my senior year of high school. It was one of the most vivid dreams I've ever had, about a girl, a boy, his dog who could see the future, and a mysterious being that was hunting them. As soon as I woke up, I knew I had something good, and I spent all day on my computer writing it down. When I was finished, I had 100 pages of work, which the finished product of Fathoms Below eventually grew out of.
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