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Stina, I can't figure out a better way to contact you, so sorry for the non-question below. Well, I'll try it as a question: Did you know that on p.316 of Persephone's Station you have a typo? ("repel" should be "rappel", methinks.) Here's to a slightly altered second edition coming out soon! Maybe the real question is, where should I have sent the question above?
Stina Leicht I understand that you're genuinely trying to help. Rest assured, I'm aware. However, the novel isn't self-published and there is nothing I can do to fix it.

I'm dyslexic. I misspell things. (Homonyms are particularly challenging.) It's upsetting, I get it, but it's more upsetting for me. Trust me. Feel free to email my publisher. I'm not in control of who they hire as the copyeditor.

Again, no worries. I get it. You're trying to help.
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Will Persephone Station be a stand-alone type of book or will there be a series?
Stina Leicht Good question. It's designed to be a stand alone. However, everything is set up in such a way that writing other novels set in the same world is extremely possible. We'll see.
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Just want to say I really enjoyed Cold Iron and Blackthorne. Loved the various characters and how they all meshed together as the book goes along. Can't wait til Book #3. Any idea as to when I can be reading it? :-)
Stina Leicht I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately, that project has been put on hold for the time being. (I'm working on a SF novel at the moment.) We'll see what happens after that. However, I am working on a short story/novella featuring the Waterborne and Dylan and Dar. I hope to get it out there this year.
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Where did you get the Finnish names for Cold Iron? I started reading it a few days ago, and since I'm fluent in Finnish I found it intriguing. Some of the place names are not quite right, but that is probably due to a difference in Eledorian spelling. As a matter of interest, some hundreds of years ago Swedes believed Finns to be shamans... Lauri Sadko
Stina Leicht I cheated. I used Google translate. I thought since it wasn't supposed to be Finnish for real, it'd be okay. But I also wanted to show that 'Eledorean' was a living language. Names change over time. They become influenced by other languages or letters get dropped...so on. Nothing stays the same. So, I purposely messed some of the words up. I figured that someone who actually speaks Finnish might get a little fun out of it. People who don't wouldn't, but they wouldn't miss anything vital.

I didn't know that about the Swedes and Finns. Thanks for that.
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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?
Stina Leicht When I was in second grade my family moved to Texas from Missouri. My parents hadn't bought a house yet. So, they rented an apartment. One afternoon, my sister and I noticed a trail of blood. We decided to play detective and follow the trail. (We didn't know any better.) We arrived at a crime scene just as the emergency workers were loading the gun-shot victim onto the gurney. I never found out what happened. We didn't tell mom until dinner.

Welcome to Texas.
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Can I send you my copy of the book to sign?
Stina Leicht I'd be happy to sign your copy of Cold Iron. However, please include enough postage to cover my returning it to you. (It's a heavy book for some reason. ;))

Stina Leicht
P.O. Box 49521
Austin, TX 78765-9521

Thanks so much!
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Fey and Fallen,both books...brilliant! Will we be hearing any more about Liam in the future?
Stina Leicht Thank you! I'm happy to hear you liked them. I hope to come back to Liam. At least, that's my intent. However, other projects have active contracts, and thus, have priority at the moment.
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I am reading "Cold Iron" and am taken with the epic setting, the conflict, and the characters, especially the women. Yet the sequel appears to involve a different set of characters. Will there be a heroine in the second book?
Stina Leicht Yes. Absolutely. More than one, actually.
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Hi Stina It is apparent to me that you've done quite a bit of research on the Troubles. Any books you've read that you found particularly informative? Or, for that matter, unbiased? 2nd question might be a tall order though.
Stina Leicht The Troubles is an emotional, complex topic, and there are very good reasons for that. Actual history isn't clean or tidy. War isn't how the Epic Fantasy novels and movies portray it. There is no 100% good protagonist versus a 100% evil. We're talking about human beings, and history is built up of a multitude of human experiences. Some of them are conflicting. The important thing to remember is that all are valid. (There is a reason the police prefer only one witness to a crime. Again, there's a reason for that. Look into the science of perception.) Therefore, there is no 'one and only' true story/experience of The Troubles. The best one can do as an outsider is to pull from multiple points of view and form one's guess--and don't kid yourself, it is a guess. This is why I included an extensive bibliography with those novels. However, I'd recommend starting with Tim Pat Coogan's books and then work outward from there. That said, I consider the most informative to be the memoirs. They report valuable details that historians leave out, but always remember the authors have an emotional stake in their stories. And sometimes individuals don't have the whole picture. They are, after all, human beings. We all are.
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