Ask the Author: Pierce Brown
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Pierce Brown
Most of them, yes. And many of the future books will be based around those backstories
Pierce Brown
It's very hard to read--mostly because it makes me feel guilty for not working at my own book.
Pierce Brown
Yup, I've got a graphic novel coming out next year called Sons of Ares, and will be looking to continue expanding in other ways
Pierce Brown
Hopefully fall of next year for the release date. I'm rushing to meet it as we speak
Pierce Brown
I wish. I'll be hunkered down writing Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
I really liked Knight in the Cupboard
Pierce Brown
Rush through your first draft. Don't tinker too much on it because the point is to see the end so you know how to make it better. And howl like a motherfucker
Pierce Brown
Ten years later, and you'll get some Darrow and a few new characters as well
Pierce Brown
Count of Monte Cristo. It's a huge, epic, romantic and desolating adventure
Pierce Brown
Probably my dissatisfaction as a child with the normal world
Pierce Brown
I hoped it would be. I thought I caught lightning in a bottle. Success just means that other people see that same lightning, so it's not something to take for granted because it all depends on other people continuing to see. Can't control that. All I can do is keep roving the skies and trying to trap the electricity.
Pierce Brown
Maps. Maps help me make the world feel alive. Know where things are and then start thinking why they are there.
Pierce Brown
I haven't yet decided. It's all I'm writing for the foreseeable future. But I've got a few more years left so time will tell.
Pierce Brown
So many. My heart's desire is to work on a fantasy series that's a cross between American Gods and Harry Potter. Can't wait to get to it.
Pierce Brown
Thank you, Sietse. Yes they have. I actually live in LA and am developing several other projects in TV/Film so it's a language I've learned to speak pretty fluently. Universal optioned it two years back and we've been developing RR for film for two years.
Pierce Brown
Very much so for Morning Star. The only way to overcome it is to write through it, knowing what you're writing will be bad but you'll fix it later. Morning Star felt like such a slog because I could take the story into so many places, but the key isn't in thinking where can I take the story, it's thinking: how do I make each scene mean something.
Pierce Brown
Aren't we already?
Pierce Brown
Hiya. The Golds created the Reds to be a patriarchal society dominated by men and to disenfranchise women by forbidding female participation in mining. They did this to take away their political power because they saw it as destabilizing. Darrow's slang and forms of expression in book one are very influenced by that society. It begins to change when he sees women in power at the Institute, in Golden Son, and his forms of expression and his understanding of gender relationships also begin to shift. His relationship with sexuality also mirrors this path, bc golds created red society to be heterosexual for similar reasons.
Pierce Brown
Thank you so much! No updates yet. It's a slow process--made slower by my obsession with getting it right.
Pierce Brown
I don't want to give too many hints, but the book is going great. I think it's some of my best writing yet, but my editor will have to vouch for me on that one
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