Ask the Author: V. St. Clair
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V. St. Clair
Hmm that is weird. They should be available through Amazon across the world, so this is the first I’m hearing of an issue. Amazon says that Belgium should be covered under the Amazon.Fr website, which distributes to France, Monaco, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
V. St. Clair
I’ve gotten this question a lot and I have been toying with the idea of another book or a collection of short stories in that series, but I want to make sure I have a good idea for continuing the plot and not just throwing something together (by the way, there are two prequels out about the Dark Prism which have a lot of familiar faces in them!). So I’m not ruling it out, but still putting ideas together. Maybe after I finish my current project :D
V. St. Clair
I would love to do so, and hopefully one day I can, but its a costly service without a publishing giant backing you so right now I don't have immediate plans for it :(
V. St. Clair
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!! I would love it if The Broken Prism series hit the big screen, and I've thought about various aspects of how it would look (and Bonk deserves to be brought to life!). Sadly I don't have any contacts in the movie industry, but maybe I'll get lucky someday :D
V. St. Clair
Thanks! Always glad to hear people like the weird things that go on inside my head, and the magic system is one of my favorite things about The Broken Prism series.
I started writing Fantasy when I was about 11 yrs old, because I've always had a very active imagination and I spend most of my time dreaming up other worlds in my head. Fantasy is (in my opinion) the hardest genre to do well, because it usually involves making up an entire new world, characters, economic system, religion, government, etc. rather than using existing framework, but I enjoy it the most for the freedom and the challenge.
My influences are other Fantasy writers (I read about 4-5 books a week), notably: Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Lois Bujold, Rick Riordan, and JK Rowling. I reread all of the above authors whenever I need inspiration, because they're all super imaginative and it kick-starts my own thinking.
I started writing Fantasy when I was about 11 yrs old, because I've always had a very active imagination and I spend most of my time dreaming up other worlds in my head. Fantasy is (in my opinion) the hardest genre to do well, because it usually involves making up an entire new world, characters, economic system, religion, government, etc. rather than using existing framework, but I enjoy it the most for the freedom and the challenge.
My influences are other Fantasy writers (I read about 4-5 books a week), notably: Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Lois Bujold, Rick Riordan, and JK Rowling. I reread all of the above authors whenever I need inspiration, because they're all super imaginative and it kick-starts my own thinking.
V. St. Clair
I'm hoping to have book 5 out sometime around June of this year (I usually keep about 6 months between release dates on this series), but so far this looks like it is going to be the longest book of the series--which I guess is appropriate, since it's the last one. So if things keep up the way they are now that date might move out a little bit.
V. St. Clair
Yes! The Broken Prism series is planned to have five books in total, so the next installment will be the last.
V. St. Clair
Boredom! I'm easily bored, so my mind usually drifts off to making up stories when that happens. I thought up the Age of Empires duo while cleaning the house one night, and the Chronicles of Icthema were conceived while I was stuck in a week-long training session on fluidized-bed reactors for my day job (100x more boring than it even sounds, trust me).
V. St. Clair
The inspiration for The Broken Prism series actually started with Bonk. I wanted to write something with dragons in it, and had the idea of a sort of odd, defective dragon who is actually pretty powerful and useful when he feels like it. I started building Hayden and his story from there, imagining the kind of boy that would be lucky/unlucky enough to win Bonk as an ally.
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