Ask the Author: Melissa F. Olson
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Melissa F. Olson
Hi, Rachael! Hopefully you figured this out already, but yes, Boundary Lines is out on Audible. Here's the link in case you missed it: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fant...
I hope you enjoy it!
I hope you enjoy it!
Melissa F. Olson
Hi, Mo! By now, I'm sure you've given up on me answering --I didn't realize my email settings were off, so I haven't been getting these questions. The idea for a null actually came from my interest in a few different things: crime scenes, how the supernatural could ever stay hidden in a modern world, and of course, the movie Hellboy 2. No, seriously. There’s a sequence in that film where the characters wear special goggles that let them see the supernatural, all the things that are usually hidden from human eyes. I was fascinated by the idea of someone who could see hidden things, and for a while I worked on a main character who was a crime scene photographer.
I played with the idea for ages, but whenever I got into all the real mythology questions, I kept running into problems. More importantly, the more I developed the character, the less I was able to connect with her. Runa was a little too squeaky-clean and cheerful for me to spend a whole book inside her head, although I did manage to bring the character back as a romantic foil for Scarlett in Trail of Dead.
So I needed a new main character, and it occurred to me that I could sort of flip the concept around: instead of seeing or finding the supernatural, she undoes it. As soon as that popped into my head, I knew Scarlett.
I played with the idea for ages, but whenever I got into all the real mythology questions, I kept running into problems. More importantly, the more I developed the character, the less I was able to connect with her. Runa was a little too squeaky-clean and cheerful for me to spend a whole book inside her head, although I did manage to bring the character back as a romantic foil for Scarlett in Trail of Dead.
So I needed a new main character, and it occurred to me that I could sort of flip the concept around: instead of seeing or finding the supernatural, she undoes it. As soon as that popped into my head, I knew Scarlett.
Melissa F. Olson
Yep! I'm doing the third Boundary Magic book right now, and then I'm writing a new Scarlett. No title yet, but it'll have to do with the Vampire Trials that I hinted about in the first trilogy.
Melissa F. Olson
Hi, John! Sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, I am currently writing the third book in the Boundary Magic series. After that, I'm contracted for a return to my Scarlett Bernard series, and after THAT...who knows. :) We'll see what my publisher wants by then.
Melissa F. Olson
Hi, Marry, sorry for the delay. The short answer is no, I'm not. The longer answer is that I don't really consider my books romance. Romance is a great genre, which I myself enjoy reading occasionally, but in a romance the *main* plot is the relationship between two characters. While my books often include some sort of romance, it's never the main plotline. Therefore, I try not to tout my books as romance because I worry that they will disappoint romance readers, who have expectations about the main storyline.
I do attend a lot of conventions, but I don't want to be hypocritical --it would be unfair of me to insist my books aren't romance and then try to seduce (pun intended) romance readers into reading them!
I do attend a lot of conventions, but I don't want to be hypocritical --it would be unfair of me to insist my books aren't romance and then try to seduce (pun intended) romance readers into reading them!
Melissa F. Olson
Hi, Andrea, sorry for the delay. I thought Goodreads notified me when I had new questions, but it turns out I just suck at the internet again. :) Yes, there will be another Scarlett book after the third Boundary book. More details here:
http://melissafolson.com/intelligentl...
http://melissafolson.com/intelligentl...
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Nov 15, 2015 03:58PM · flag