Ask the Author: Victoria Perkins
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Victoria Perkins
Tough question. I'm a huge fantasy and sci-fi fan, so there are so many fictional worlds I'd love to visit. I have to go with the one I've loved the longest, which would be Narnia from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series. I would love to see Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste, all the way to the edge of the world. I think that's what I'd want to do. Visit all of the places Lewis named in his books. Aslan's How / the Stone Table. The underground kingdom from The Silver Chair. The Dufflepuds island.
Victoria Perkins
So many books are on my TBR list right now. The closest ones are Heartless by Marissa Meyer, the second book in the Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare, the next Stonefire Dragons book by Jessie Donovan, the last three books of the 100 series by Kass Morgan, The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick, the Sullivan series by Bella Andre...
Victoria Perkins
I always have the hardest time picking one favorite, and this is even worse since some of my favorites aren't exactly traditional. I love the Tessa-Will-Jem love triangle in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series. The multiple relationships in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series offer so many options. But I'd have to say if I had to choose just one, the couple that would edge out the others would be Claire and Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. They're the sort of couple who will fight their way back to each other no matter what comes between them.
Victoria Perkins
Since I'm a ghostwriter professionally, inspiration from those places comes in the form of what my clients want me to write. For my own work, there's no one surefire way to be inspired to write, but I don't wait for it. If I get a sudden inspiration, that's great, but writing isn't all about waiting for the muse to sprinkle that magic dust. It's work, and sometimes that means gritting the teeth and just doing it, inspired or not.
Victoria Perkins
I'll steal this one from Stephen King's On Writing (which is probably one of the best books any aspiring fiction writer can read). "Read a lot, write a lot." Don't just talk about writing. Do it. Another (paraphrased) instruction from King was writing = butt in chair. A lot of people talk about how they want to write or how they'd be a writer if they just had the time. If you read On Writing, you'll see why that's not an excuse.
I'll also add something a former college professor told my class. Read everything. Don't just read the genres you like. Try out at least one or two books from every genre. Read at least one book from the big name authors. That suggestion actually lead me to J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and Dean Koontz, among others.
I'll also add something a former college professor told my class. Read everything. Don't just read the genres you like. Try out at least one or two books from every genre. Read at least one book from the big name authors. That suggestion actually lead me to J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and Dean Koontz, among others.
Victoria Perkins
I love stories so, for me, the best part about being a writer is when someone else loves the story I create.
Victoria Perkins
Writing full-time and having deadlines has forced me to deal with writer's block differently than I had before. Now, at first, I'll take a short break to clear my head with something else and see if that works. If it doesn't, I try to follow a former college professor's advice and just push through, even if the result isn't pretty.
Victoria Perkins
My most recent book, The Dragon Three, was inspired while emerged in the world of Harry Potter. My thought was, what if being magic wasn't the secret, but rather everyone has magic and someone not having it would be the secret.
Victoria Perkins
I'm currently working on a book that's going to explain how characters from one book show up in another that doesn't seem to exist within the same world. It's going to be an action-y type book that's definitely in the sci-fi / alternative history genre.
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