Ask the Author: J.L. Trepanier
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J.L. Trepanier
I began my journey writing October 2016, in the midst of my junior year of college. I’d been whining about how I’ve always wanted to write a book. A fantasy book. The same kind of book that I used to stay up past bedtime reading when I was a kid. The same kind that enraptured me in new words of magic and adventure.
My best friend (now husband) basically told me “Well then, do it, coward.”
In six caffeine-fueled weeks, (four of those weeks corresponding with National Novel Writing Month 2016) I did it, coward.
I produced a 485-paged POV-shifting, head-hopping, telling-but-not-showing, plot-hole-riddled monstrosity about a half dragon teenager named Elaro, his team of quirky soldiers and human apprentice all on a quest to find the soul of the world to save it from evil winter. :)
And by some miracle, I found an editor who looked at my eyesore of a manuscript and said, “Yeah. This is the one. I want to edit this.”
Two years, several rounds of editing and beta reading, this wild story turned into Legend of the Stone Keepers.
My best friend (now husband) basically told me “Well then, do it, coward.”
In six caffeine-fueled weeks, (four of those weeks corresponding with National Novel Writing Month 2016) I did it, coward.
I produced a 485-paged POV-shifting, head-hopping, telling-but-not-showing, plot-hole-riddled monstrosity about a half dragon teenager named Elaro, his team of quirky soldiers and human apprentice all on a quest to find the soul of the world to save it from evil winter. :)
And by some miracle, I found an editor who looked at my eyesore of a manuscript and said, “Yeah. This is the one. I want to edit this.”
Two years, several rounds of editing and beta reading, this wild story turned into Legend of the Stone Keepers.
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