Ask the Author: Danika Dinsmore

“Book 6, Song from Afar, launches on Aug 1st! Contact me if you'd like a complimentary copy in exchange for a review. ” Danika Dinsmore

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Danika Dinsmore It's coming Aug 1st! And yes, numerous reasons for the delay, but it's off to the printers as I type.
Danika Dinsmore I don't always wait to get inspired to write. As a matter of fact, I recommend against writing only when you are inspired. Sometimes, you just have to write. If I sit down and do it no matter how I'm feeling, the inspiration comes through the process of writing itself.
Danika Dinsmore Hi Brigitta! :-)

I have plans for a total of 6 books in the series (although Book 4 - the prequel, is about Narine of Noe, not Brigitta). Book 5 should be out next spring and Book 6 the following year. Thanks for asking!
Danika Dinsmore The omnibus is listed there now! I hope you enjoy(ed) it. :-)

(sorry so long to respond, I somehow missed this question!)
Danika Dinsmore Getting to hang out in that world. :-)
Danika Dinsmore I don't have writer's block. I have writer's procrastination. :-) The best way to deal with it for me is by making writing an every day ritual and by writing first thing in the morning (before I get online!).
Danika Dinsmore Yes! Book Five picks up where Book Three leaves off. We go back to Brigitta, Jarlath, Lalam, Glennis, Minq, and Narru as they literally set sail on their biggest adventure yet. Tentatively titled VOYAGE FROM FORAGLENN (or considering SONGS FROM AFAR) and tentative release date Mar 2017.
Danika Dinsmore If you took the last novel I wrote (INTERGALACTIC: a Pop Space Opera), changed its clothes, sobered it up, and spun it 180 degrees, you'd get my current WIP: Winterspring and Summerfall.

Intergalactic is comical, set in the future, and based on an outrageous Lady Ga-Gaesque character who must prevent an interplanetary war.

Winterspring and Summerfall is literary fiction set in the 1980's and is an amalgam of true life experiences (my own, my friends, and others around me). It takes place over a small bit of terrain, one girl's coming of age and opening into sexual identity. There's no shooting across the galaxy, only a lonely girl who sees the world in her own strange way, and whose first intimate encounter is with a neighbour girl who, years later in high school, denies the relationship and even bullies her.

I might pitch it as The Perks of Being a Wallflower for Queer Girls

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