Ask the Author: H.A. Wills
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H.A. Wills
The plan is Spring 2024. However, if you want some sneak peeks, I'm releasing alpha chapters for Kindred Spirit once a month on my Patreon until release. You can find my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/author_hawills
*edited for clarity and to remove any unintentional misunderstandings*
*edited for clarity and to remove any unintentional misunderstandings*
H.A. Wills
No. The Bound Spirit Series is expected to be a 10-book series though I'm working on pairing it down.
H.A. Wills
My aim is by the end of this year, but we'll see. I'm currently finishing up a standalone MF office romance titled A Forever Kind of Love that will release this summer, then I'll get back to work on Kindred Spirit. Needed a break to give the book a chance to breathe.
H.A. Wills
So sorry to only get to this now. I've thought about it, but mostly, I've been swamped with other projects, and any content that would've made it into this book, I've instead released on my Pateron which you're welcome to check out here: https://www.patreon.com/author_hawills. If there's enough interest or I get enough time, I might come back to it. Most people are interested in me continuing The Bound Spirit Series, so most of my efforts go toward that.
H.A. Wills
Unfortunately, due to the pandemic and personal reasons Sinful Choices had to be canceled. But if you're interested in my more 18+ content, you can find it on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/author_hawills
H.A. Wills
Saturday, August 20th 2022.
H.A. Wills
Saturday, August 20th 2022
H.A. Wills
Currently, The Bound Spirit Series is expected to be 10 books.
H.A. Wills
I had to take a hiatus for personal reasons, but I'm back and Lost Spirit: Book Four of the Bound Spirit Series releases August 20th!
H.A. Wills
I'm so pleased you've enjoyed the series. Lost Spirit: Book Four of the Bound Spirit Series will release Sept 2020, and this summer I plan to release Sinful Choices which is a stand-alone erotica novel.
H.A. Wills
Sorry for the delay in answer. Lost Spirit: Book Four of the Bound Spirit Series is expected to release in September 2020.
H.A. Wills
I'm currently working on the first book for my next series "Seasons of Water" which follows another spirit witch in the Bound Spirit Universe, and the expected release is in Spring 2020. These books will eventually overlap with the main series. Once that book is released I'll have a better timeline for when the next Bound Spirit book will be out.
H.A. Wills
I'm so pleased you enjoyed the book. The next book I'm working on is Sprink of Selkies, which is the first book in my Seasons of Water series (expected release late Spring 2020) then I'll start on Book 4, Lost Spirit. My hopes are to release two books a year, so I can't guarantee, but my aim is to have Lost Spirit out sometime December 2020. From there, I'll be alternating back and forth between the two series until Seasons of Water is finished, which will be a four book series.
H.A. Wills
Hi Maria!
I'm so pleased you enjoyed the second installment of The Bound Spirit Series and it's brought you back to the paranormal/fantasy genre. Right now, the only information about Save Spirit's release date is Summer 2019. The actual release date probably won't be announced until closer to this summer. Keep an eye out for that.
To stay up to date on what's going on in the series, I recommend joining my facebook group The Bound Spirit Coven. You can also find special extra POV content from the guys, fun events, and giveaways there.
www.facebook.com/groups/TheBoundSpiri...
I'm so pleased you enjoyed the second installment of The Bound Spirit Series and it's brought you back to the paranormal/fantasy genre. Right now, the only information about Save Spirit's release date is Summer 2019. The actual release date probably won't be announced until closer to this summer. Keep an eye out for that.
To stay up to date on what's going on in the series, I recommend joining my facebook group The Bound Spirit Coven. You can also find special extra POV content from the guys, fun events, and giveaways there.
www.facebook.com/groups/TheBoundSpiri...
H.A. Wills
I am a plotter to an almost terrifying degree. My content editor jokes that all I'm missing is the dialogue and sensory input to have a finished book. However, this helps me on the days when my brain doesn't want to cooperate, because I at least know what's supposed to happen and attempt to get that stuff down. Then later I can come back and try to make it closer to what I actually want.
The days where I feel like writing is the equivalent of trying to push mounds of snow uphill in deep winter, I go off and either take a long shower or a nap. While doing either activity, I think about my book and my characters as a whole. Letting the story just kind of hang out in my head and play in it's own way. I find a lot of the times when I'm trying to fight to write, it's because I'm either trying to make my characters do something they don't want to/ or wouldn't do (my characters are very stubborn that way), or I'm writing from the wrong perspective.
Also check to make sure you're not giving yourself arbitrary rules on your writing. The only rules you are restricted by are the ones set by your universe. Remember, this is your story and what happens in it is totally up to you. Just because other people have done it one way, doesn't mean you have it.
Furthermore, don't try to reinvent the wheel. It's already been invented. That stress and anxiety you put on yourself worrying that the story isn't creative enough, or what people will say about it, will freeze you up faster than anything. Give yourself permission to write your story-- not the story you think people want. At the end of the day, the only person that really needs to love your story, is you.
The days where I feel like writing is the equivalent of trying to push mounds of snow uphill in deep winter, I go off and either take a long shower or a nap. While doing either activity, I think about my book and my characters as a whole. Letting the story just kind of hang out in my head and play in it's own way. I find a lot of the times when I'm trying to fight to write, it's because I'm either trying to make my characters do something they don't want to/ or wouldn't do (my characters are very stubborn that way), or I'm writing from the wrong perspective.
Also check to make sure you're not giving yourself arbitrary rules on your writing. The only rules you are restricted by are the ones set by your universe. Remember, this is your story and what happens in it is totally up to you. Just because other people have done it one way, doesn't mean you have it.
Furthermore, don't try to reinvent the wheel. It's already been invented. That stress and anxiety you put on yourself worrying that the story isn't creative enough, or what people will say about it, will freeze you up faster than anything. Give yourself permission to write your story-- not the story you think people want. At the end of the day, the only person that really needs to love your story, is you.
H.A. Wills
I get to dye my hair any color I want. lol. Being able to work in my PJs is pretty awesome, too.
H.A. Wills
First, I'd recommend taking in as many stories as possible in any way that you can get them. Top of the list, read-- I look at it as filling myself with words. Makes it easier to write. But don't stop there. Take in stories in all different mediums. Movies, TV, Video Games, etc. They're all different venues for the same thing, telling stories.
Second, observe everyday people. Take in their appearances, their mannerisms, their speech patterns, etc. The more you take in the beauty and diversity of everyday people, the easier it will be to apply those details to your characters. If you feel inclined, keep a journal. It'll give you something to look at when you're trying to build characters.
Third, when you write, empathy is important... you have to be able to put yourself in your characters shoes and feel what they feel. You don't necessarily have to have experienced it before, but I feel it's important to be able to look outside yourself and look at your story from their perspective. They're the avatar of which your reader will travel through your world, so if you can't feel it, your reader won't either.
Fourth, research! If you're trying to write from a perspective you just can't seem to feel, talk to someone that has walked that road. They're likely to tell you things that hasn't even occurred to you. If your character is an expert in something, congrats, you're now at least going to be fairly knowledgeable in it yourself. The more you know, the better and more complex your story will be.
And finally, what is always the most important, write it down! Now, a lot of people encourage to write everyday-- and yes, I highly encourage you to never stop writing, but sometimes the words don't come, and forcing them can just leave you angry and frustrated. So my advice is more geared towards this: you have an idea, write it down. Characters that won't stop talking to you. A random story that you think is kind of cool. Whatever it is, write it down. It doesn't have to be a fleshed out full story-- just what you know. Write bullet points if you have to. The point is to make sure you have these ideas handy when you need them. You never know when the moment will happen and a bunch of those threads will tie together to make the story only you can write.
Second, observe everyday people. Take in their appearances, their mannerisms, their speech patterns, etc. The more you take in the beauty and diversity of everyday people, the easier it will be to apply those details to your characters. If you feel inclined, keep a journal. It'll give you something to look at when you're trying to build characters.
Third, when you write, empathy is important... you have to be able to put yourself in your characters shoes and feel what they feel. You don't necessarily have to have experienced it before, but I feel it's important to be able to look outside yourself and look at your story from their perspective. They're the avatar of which your reader will travel through your world, so if you can't feel it, your reader won't either.
Fourth, research! If you're trying to write from a perspective you just can't seem to feel, talk to someone that has walked that road. They're likely to tell you things that hasn't even occurred to you. If your character is an expert in something, congrats, you're now at least going to be fairly knowledgeable in it yourself. The more you know, the better and more complex your story will be.
And finally, what is always the most important, write it down! Now, a lot of people encourage to write everyday-- and yes, I highly encourage you to never stop writing, but sometimes the words don't come, and forcing them can just leave you angry and frustrated. So my advice is more geared towards this: you have an idea, write it down. Characters that won't stop talking to you. A random story that you think is kind of cool. Whatever it is, write it down. It doesn't have to be a fleshed out full story-- just what you know. Write bullet points if you have to. The point is to make sure you have these ideas handy when you need them. You never know when the moment will happen and a bunch of those threads will tie together to make the story only you can write.
H.A. Wills
I'm hard at work on Save Spirit, Book 3 of The Bound Spirit Series. My hopes are to have it out in Summer 2019.
H.A. Wills
For as long as I could talk, I've told myself stories. Growing up, I'd make up stories at night to entertain myself, so I could drift off to sleep. When I got older, I started writing them down and sharing them with friends (I also got super creative with every writing assignment in school.)
I also love stories in general in any form I can get them: books, movies, television shows, video games, comics, etc. I also like to make up stories or tweak stories in my head of said favorite stories (yes, I'm talking head canons), and after a while, I started writing those down and posting them online. That's right, folks! I wrote fan fiction! lol.
To make a long story longer, what inspires me to write is everything. I take in as many stories in as many ways as I can until I'm practically bursting, then out of all of that madness my stories bloom, and I write them down as fast as I can before I lose them. No matter how weird they are, or how they don't feel like they'll go anywhere, I jot down what I have, because I never know when it might be useful later.
I also love stories in general in any form I can get them: books, movies, television shows, video games, comics, etc. I also like to make up stories or tweak stories in my head of said favorite stories (yes, I'm talking head canons), and after a while, I started writing those down and posting them online. That's right, folks! I wrote fan fiction! lol.
To make a long story longer, what inspires me to write is everything. I take in as many stories in as many ways as I can until I'm practically bursting, then out of all of that madness my stories bloom, and I write them down as fast as I can before I lose them. No matter how weird they are, or how they don't feel like they'll go anywhere, I jot down what I have, because I never know when it might be useful later.
H.A. Wills
I'm a huge fan of the RH genre and just inhale books. It isn't pretty. Well, back in January 2018, I was on a several hour long train ride, and I was in a bit of a reading slump. To entertain myself, I decided if I was going to write an RH, what would it be like.
Anytime I have an idea for a book, I write the idea down, and I had an idea for a book a while back that had three friends and each was a different supernatural creature-- a ghost, a vampire, and a witch. The three friends didn't know they lived in a town of supernatural creatures, until they learned/became supernatural creatures themselves. I really liked that book idea, but it never went anywhere... until that day on the train.
Originally, it was only going to be Callie, Nolan, Felix, Connor, and Kaleb. I had them all planned, but Donovan was having none of it and strolled right into my head, informing me he was also part of this harem. It goes to show you that really the imaginary people write the story, I just try to catch everything before they move on to the next topic.
Anytime I have an idea for a book, I write the idea down, and I had an idea for a book a while back that had three friends and each was a different supernatural creature-- a ghost, a vampire, and a witch. The three friends didn't know they lived in a town of supernatural creatures, until they learned/became supernatural creatures themselves. I really liked that book idea, but it never went anywhere... until that day on the train.
Originally, it was only going to be Callie, Nolan, Felix, Connor, and Kaleb. I had them all planned, but Donovan was having none of it and strolled right into my head, informing me he was also part of this harem. It goes to show you that really the imaginary people write the story, I just try to catch everything before they move on to the next topic.
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