Ask the Author: Erin Michelle Sky
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Erin Michelle Sky
The paperback will be available soon! I have the interior proof pdf in my hands. :)
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Libby! It's a clean, fun series for readers of any age. :)
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Rhiannon! There is a title and a cover for book 3, but they haven't been released yet. Thanks so much for asking! We're super excited about that book, and we looooove the cover our artist created for us! We're also hoping to release The Navigator on audiobook, but we don't have a date for that yet. Crossing our fingers!
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Lauren! Thanks for asking! The Navigator isn't in audiobook form yet, but we do intend to release an audio edition. We're still working with our audio publisher on the timing for that. Fingers crossed!
Erin Michelle Sky
We would LOVE to produce an audiobook of The Intuitives, but we haven't found the right voice yet. Once we do, we'll announce a timeline for the project on our author blogs. Thanks so much for asking! =D
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Rianna! We do have plans for a possible sequel to The Intuitives. We're currently finishing up the first book in a different series--The Wendy. As soon as that's ready for publication, we'll look at how well The Intuitives is doing. If there are enough readers asking for a sequel, we'll definitely write one!
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Moon! Nice to meet you! Thanks for the question! 💖
My personal favorite has to be the Dragonriders of Pern series. Those are the books that made me want to become an author... mostly because I wanted to be a dragonrider, and I couldn't! I mean, was that so much to ask? It's not like I had my heart set on a gold. I'd have been perfectly happy with a small-but-scrappy green. They're more my style anyway. Less regal, more irreverent... But no! I had to be born on Earth! Boring, dragonless Earth!
Although the cats here are nice...
Sorry, what was I saying? Oh, right! Anne McCaffrey! So, yes, I love the Pern series. But I also enjoyed her Killashandra books, and the Talents series was really fun. Even Acorna... I mean, unicorn people? Yes, please! I figured if I couldn't be a dragonrider, then the next best thing I could *actually* do would be to write fantasy and science fiction books--to live in lots of different worlds, if only in my imagination!
My personal favorite has to be the Dragonriders of Pern series. Those are the books that made me want to become an author... mostly because I wanted to be a dragonrider, and I couldn't! I mean, was that so much to ask? It's not like I had my heart set on a gold. I'd have been perfectly happy with a small-but-scrappy green. They're more my style anyway. Less regal, more irreverent... But no! I had to be born on Earth! Boring, dragonless Earth!
Although the cats here are nice...
Sorry, what was I saying? Oh, right! Anne McCaffrey! So, yes, I love the Pern series. But I also enjoyed her Killashandra books, and the Talents series was really fun. Even Acorna... I mean, unicorn people? Yes, please! I figured if I couldn't be a dragonrider, then the next best thing I could *actually* do would be to write fantasy and science fiction books--to live in lots of different worlds, if only in my imagination!
Erin Michelle Sky
Hi, Lauren! Thanks for your question! Steven and I were approached several years ago by a fledgling gaming company that was interested in having us write some of their quest lines. In researching the market, we became immersed in a few different gaming cultures, and we were struck by the tremendous teamwork and diversity of MMORPG guilds and clans. They are the only teams we know in which a lawyer will take direction from a ten-year-old child--because the team objective is the most important thing to everyone and because in that raid or on that map, the child happens to be the fastest or the most experienced player. We saw teams made up of teachers and students, programmers and farmers, artists and mathematicians, all working together for a common goal, and we felt inspired to write a book about that kind of teamwork!
As for how long it took to write...
In his short story, "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories," Neil Gaiman wrote:
That's kind of how The Intuitives was. The first draft took less than three months to write. Then we left it alone for a while while we worked on other things. We went back and edited it several months later, removing about 15,000 words from the novel, but that process only took a few weeks. We credit the characters themselves for the speed with which the book flowed. It was as though they were right there telling us what they were thinking, what they said, and how it all happened!
As for how long it took to write...
In his short story, "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories," Neil Gaiman wrote:
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
Except for Sons of Man, and that one pretty much wrote itself.
That's kind of how The Intuitives was. The first draft took less than three months to write. Then we left it alone for a while while we worked on other things. We went back and edited it several months later, removing about 15,000 words from the novel, but that process only took a few weeks. We credit the characters themselves for the speed with which the book flowed. It was as though they were right there telling us what they were thinking, what they said, and how it all happened!
Erin Michelle Sky
Great question! I have so many favorites. I fell in love with Anne McCaffrey's books as a young teen. She is always the first to come to mind. I also loved Ray Bradbury's short stories and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. More recently, I'm madly in love with Susan Dennard's Witchlands series, starting with Truthwitch. And Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer is just magnificent.
As for influence on my writing, I have to mention the lyrical feel of Latin American literature. I translated several short stories from Spanish into English as an undergrad, and I fell in love with the prose--both in the original and in the way it translated into English. I like to think there are at least phrases here and there in my own writing that are worthy of claiming that influence.
As for influence on my writing, I have to mention the lyrical feel of Latin American literature. I translated several short stories from Spanish into English as an undergrad, and I fell in love with the prose--both in the original and in the way it translated into English. I like to think there are at least phrases here and there in my own writing that are worthy of claiming that influence.
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