Ask the Author: Adriel.
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Adriel.
Okay, this is more like my reading list for the year, because there's no way that I get through all of these this summer:
- Before they Were Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- Before they Were Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
Adriel.
Hey Tina! Great question! Every author is heavily advised to stick to their original genre religiously. Don't deviate. Because if a thriller author tries to write a Sci-Fi book, he has to build an entirely different audience than the one he's already been acquiring. So the book won't sell.
That being said . . . no, my next book will not be fantasy.
I'm currently working on four projects!
A christian devotional where Bible excerpts are listed one after the other, from me to God and from God to me, so that it reads like a conversation, but it only uses the Bible. This one is almost finished and will probably come out sometime next year!
A YA time travel novella with a female main character.
A children's utopia book like The Giver.
And of course, the next iteration in the Archeodon Series, book two: Aliyah.
. . . All of these books are different genres, so I basically have to build four separate followings. Wish me luck, hahaha
That being said . . . no, my next book will not be fantasy.
I'm currently working on four projects!
A christian devotional where Bible excerpts are listed one after the other, from me to God and from God to me, so that it reads like a conversation, but it only uses the Bible. This one is almost finished and will probably come out sometime next year!
A YA time travel novella with a female main character.
A children's utopia book like The Giver.
And of course, the next iteration in the Archeodon Series, book two: Aliyah.
. . . All of these books are different genres, so I basically have to build four separate followings. Wish me luck, hahaha
Adriel.
Probably InkHeart. The whole book is about this character that can read so well that whatever he reads literally comes to life. So he reads out these characters of a fantasy story and they become real people. And later in the series the MC reads the whole cast (including himself, the author, and his daughter) back into the fantasy book. So this is all a bit meta because if I could live in any fictional world, I'd pick the one where I can give a character things to read that literally become true. I'd become a god. Then again, that's what the author of the original fantasy story thought, too.
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