Ask the Author: Emily A. Duncan
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Emily A. Duncan
Hi! Thanks! I was at YALLFEST last year! Basically, if they invite me I will go. :)
Emily A. Duncan
The HARDEST THING was when I queried the book I spent eleven years of my LIFE on and got a 100% rejection rate. This book was not WICKED SAINTS, it was something else, and, frankly, it deserved all the rejections. But it hurt! I had spent a lot of time and work on that book and I loved it a lot and having so many people look at it and say 'hm, no' was quite painful! But, eventually, it was worth it, because after that book I wrote Wicked Saints. And I had a GREAT time researching it. My favorite thing to this day was the sheer number of vampire stories I found when researching Polish folklore. There are so many vampires.
Emily A. Duncan
I've wanted to write since I was 12, the librarian part I decided on when I was in college, because I wanted to do something that II would actually enjoy while mostly focusing on writing. It's all worked out pretty well :)
Emily A. Duncan
This is so sweet thank you so much! (Ruthless Gods comes out on April 7th, 2020)
Emily A. Duncan
Considering the fact that I tend to write those in a mad dash at the end of the writing the book, I don't actually have a lot of... other material when it comes to the Codecies that doesn't end up in the novels. Never say never though!
Emily A. Duncan
Hi, thank you! full disclosure I wrote WS when i was in grad school and working a part time reference assistant job that had a lot of down time. BUT I wrote the sequel while working a full time youth services librarian job and it is! hard! I have to manage my time carefully and I have a very... structured social life. there is an 11 day stretch of last year that I don't remember because i hit a deadline and was churning out 3-4k words every day just in a desperate attempt to finish.
So, I'm not going to say it's easy because it's really hard! But it's absolutely possible, and it's nice if your coworkers know that your brain is melting because of writing and cut you a little slack lol.
So, I'm not going to say it's easy because it's really hard! But it's absolutely possible, and it's nice if your coworkers know that your brain is melting because of writing and cut you a little slack lol.
Emily A. Duncan
Thank you so muuuuch! It's a trilogy!
Emily A. Duncan
I wanted to write something that I would have fun with while I was writing it! Also I listen to a lot of metal. It just kind of happens organically from there. And thanks so much!! <3
Emily A. Duncan
If I could write at, like, 1 p.m. every day, my god, I would be so productive. ALAS, however, day job. So I write in the evening. None morning. Never morning.
Emily A. Duncan
Everything is monsters and every problem has some explanation that is, well, a monster. Have you fainted from the heat? It was a monster (Poludnitsa/Południca). Something wrong with your animals? Is the dvorovoi upset with you? And so on and so forth.
In Polish folklore everything is probably vampires.
There's a maintaining of superstition and old magic in Eastern European folktales and culture that is deeply fascinating to me. I like playing in that sandbox.
In Polish folklore everything is probably vampires.
There's a maintaining of superstition and old magic in Eastern European folktales and culture that is deeply fascinating to me. I like playing in that sandbox.
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