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Sandra Bats
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(view spoiler)[The original idea for Persephone's Curse was conceived long before I started writing it. I was watching TV (Vampries Diaries; it was during my vampire loving phase) and there was a scene where a guy (I believe it was Damon) carried Elena out of a hospital. And for some reason all of the sudden I had an idea for a scene where a guy carries a girl through a school. That scene was the first one of Persephone's Curse that ever made it onto my computer. And then I left it there for over a year while writing the vampire story I was working on at the time. And eventually I came back to it, having lost interest in vampires and just slowly developed the novel around that scene.
That very scene made it into the novel towards the end. It is now the scene where Jayden carries Elin from Jane's room after she's been attacked by Alex. In fact when I wrote it Alex was the only person I named. Jayden and Elin remained just "the boy" and "the girl" during that very early draft. (hide spoiler)]
That very scene made it into the novel towards the end. It is now the scene where Jayden carries Elin from Jane's room after she's been attacked by Alex. In fact when I wrote it Alex was the only person I named. Jayden and Elin remained just "the boy" and "the girl" during that very early draft. (hide spoiler)]
Sandra Bats
Currently I'm working on the edits for the sequel to Persephone's Curse. And I'm also still writing a completely unreleated Urban Fantasy novel that remains untitled so far.
Sandra Bats
Do you remember how, when you're a little kid people ask what you want to be when you grow up? I've always wanted to be everything. A veterinarian, a wedding planner, a doctor, a chef, an astronaut, a florist, a lawyer, a librarian, a baker and many more interesting professions.
It changed all the time and oddly enough, even though I've been writing since I was eleven years old I never once said I wanted to be a writer. Being a writer to me was so much fun that I just couldn't imagine it as a job because surely a job wasn't supposed to be your hobby.
Now my hobby is my job and I love that by being a writer I get to be all those jobs I've ever wanted to work in. Not just that, I get to exist in foreign worlds that I created and I get to create charming heroes and conflicted villains. I get to do anything I can imagine.
It changed all the time and oddly enough, even though I've been writing since I was eleven years old I never once said I wanted to be a writer. Being a writer to me was so much fun that I just couldn't imagine it as a job because surely a job wasn't supposed to be your hobby.
Now my hobby is my job and I love that by being a writer I get to be all those jobs I've ever wanted to work in. Not just that, I get to exist in foreign worlds that I created and I get to create charming heroes and conflicted villains. I get to do anything I can imagine.
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