Ask the Author: Amy Rae Durreson
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Amy Rae Durreson
Earthsea, where I'd sit on the beach, weaving stories in my mind as I gazed West and hoped I could see dragons in the light of the setting sun.
Amy Rae Durreson
Hi :) They're all been rereleased this month, so you'll be able to find them on Amazon. The links here on Goodreads should work (they work for me) as long as you're looking at the new editions with the scale-patterned background texture. Hope that helps!
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm afraid the Reawakening books are currently out of print. Dreamspinner released the rights back to me at the start of October. I'm definitely planning to rerelease them, along with the rest of my backlist, but I also have a demanding day job so I'm having to spread out the new editions. Dreamspinner are still selling off the last of the paperbacks they have in stock, but they'll be gone soon too.
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm glad you enjoy the books :) I have a newsletter and a website (https://amyraenbow.wordpress.com/). Both have been on hiatus for a while, but I'm starting to blow the cobwebs off and polish the woodwork.
My next release is a supernatural thriller set in the Scottish Borders, Something Wicked This Way Comes, which will be released on October 29th.
My next release is a supernatural thriller set in the Scottish Borders, Something Wicked This Way Comes, which will be released on October 29th.
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm afraid it's a very long off. I've been struggling to write much the last couple of years, and my high fantasy muses seem to have taken the brunt of it. That said, I do really want to get back to Kastrian and the others one day, so I'm not giving up on them entirely.
Amy Rae Durreson
Hi :)
I'm afraid Something Wicked This Way Comes is all I have on the near horizon--that's due on October 29th. I'm also working to rerelease some of my older short stories from now defunct anthologies--Granddad's Cup of Tea is up on Smashwords and Amazon now and Philip Collyer vs the Cola Thief will be next, hopefully before the end of August.
I've had a frustrating run of slow writing years, so have been on a bit of an inadvertent hiatus. Thank you for being persistent. I'm very slowly starting to pick up steam again, so hopefully I'll have more news in a few months time.
Amy
I'm afraid Something Wicked This Way Comes is all I have on the near horizon--that's due on October 29th. I'm also working to rerelease some of my older short stories from now defunct anthologies--Granddad's Cup of Tea is up on Smashwords and Amazon now and Philip Collyer vs the Cola Thief will be next, hopefully before the end of August.
I've had a frustrating run of slow writing years, so have been on a bit of an inadvertent hiatus. Thank you for being persistent. I'm very slowly starting to pick up steam again, so hopefully I'll have more news in a few months time.
Amy
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm glad you enjoyed it :) Kas will be the point of view character of the next book, but I'm afraid I haven't written very much of it yet. Pol is nonbinary and they will be showing up again later in the series--at the moment, I'm expecting them to show up in Isara's book and probably Sharnyn's as well.
Amy Rae Durreson
Hi :) I'm glad you enjoyed the books so much. The shorts are currently unavailable, but I'm hoping to rerelease them later this year. I'll put word out via my newsletter and my blog.
Amy Rae Durreson
Probably not, I'm afraid. I'm too far from the characters to get back into their heads. I do know that eventually the Ysians will drop the Veil and set off across the ocean to escape the Empire. I also know that one day, centuries later, once the Empire has collapsed in on itself, a few Ysian ships will return. I haven't even found the characters for that story yet, so it's not even on the horizon, but if I do come back to this world, that's the story I'm most likely to tell. Sorry :(
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm glad you're enjoying them. I'm aiming for seven books, including a novella length prequel about Cayl and Sethan. There are a lot of dragons out there, but the remaining four in the main series are Markell (rust), Isara (silver), Quarllian (purple) and finally Sharnyn (green). And, yes, Markell's up next, though it won't be for a while, I'm afraid, as I've barely started his book and have another project I need to finish first. <spoiler>And, yup, though it's going to be a stormy wooing XD</spoiler>
Amy Rae Durreson
Oddly enough, it was an optional paper as part of my English degree at Oxford. I also did papers on Anglo-Saxon Archaeology and late medieval romance, because consistency is boring. Admittedly, I was terrible at Old Icelandic--it's the only one of my languages which utterly defeated me, but I'm still glad I had the chance to try.
Amy Rae Durreson
It's going to be a while, I'm afraid, as I'm still writing it. I'm hoping to finish the first draft this week, which means it's likely to be late spring next year at the earliest. Sorry :( I have been posting some snippets from it on my website here: https://amyraenbow.wordpress.com/tag/...
Amy Rae Durreson
Thank you :) I hadn't thought about writing anything more about those two. I loved writing Monty, but their story feels complete to me.
Amy Rae Durreson
I don't know of plans for audiobooks, I'm afraid. Dreamspinner hold the audio rights, so it's up to them.
Recovery is still a fair way off, mostly because I haven't finished it yet. I'm 112000 words in, so the first draft is nearly done. I'm afraid the earliest it's likely to be is mid-2017. Sorry :( I'm writing as fast as I can, but it's the longest and most complicated book yet and Arden talks too much so it just keeps getting bigger ;)
Recovery is still a fair way off, mostly because I haven't finished it yet. I'm 112000 words in, so the first draft is nearly done. I'm afraid the earliest it's likely to be is mid-2017. Sorry :( I'm writing as fast as I can, but it's the longest and most complicated book yet and Arden talks too much so it just keeps getting bigger ;)
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm glad you enjoyed the first two. Resistance, in particular, is very dear to my heart :) I'm currently working on a third Reawakening book, about Raif and the dragon Arden facing political conspiracies and soul-eating sea monsters in the lagoon city of Aliann (if you've read the glossaries, you'll have met Arden and can probably guess how much he's flustering poor Raif!). The book isn't under contract, so I'm not making any definite promises, but I'm hoping it might see daylight in early-mid 2017.
I've posted a teeny excerpt here.
I've posted a teeny excerpt here.
Amy Rae Durreson
Thank you. It's the first full-length contemporary I've written, so I was a little nervous about it. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
I will definitely be at the Meet this year (I've got my ticket!), and this year I will actually go to the book fair. Last year I got the last ticket on the reserve list and didn't have enough time to order books. I'm very happy to reserve copies of the Reawakening books for you, but A Frost of Cares won't have a print edition, I'm afraid. It's not quite long enough.
I will definitely be at the Meet this year (I've got my ticket!), and this year I will actually go to the book fair. Last year I got the last ticket on the reserve list and didn't have enough time to order books. I'm very happy to reserve copies of the Reawakening books for you, but A Frost of Cares won't have a print edition, I'm afraid. It's not quite long enough.
Amy Rae Durreson
I haven't got any plans to go back to that world at the moment, I'm afraid. I won't rule it out completely, because I have some scrappy ideas about what else might happen there, but it's very much on the back burner. My fantasy writing is focussed on the Reawakening books at the moment.
Amy Rae Durreson
Hi. I'm afraid there are no plans to release it anywhere else at the moment, but if that changes I will let you know, I promise. The extra chapters were something I wrote as part of the first draft of Resistance, before I decided not to include Halsarr's point of view in that book, so they weren't available to add to the first edition.
Amy Rae Durreson
I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. I haven't got any plans to continue it at the moment, I'm afraid, though I've learned not to say never. Most of my fantasy writing energy is going into my dragon books right now, though I do have a very vague idea of what might melt the Court of Ice.
Amy Rae Durreson
Firstly, thank you. That's a wonderful and rather humbling thing to hear. Secondly, I must admit that I couldn't name any one influence which shaped my writing. I'm a gluttonous reader, and it all feeds into my writing eventually. I love good craftsmanship in writing (at the moment, I'm very slowly working my way through Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel books, which are too well-written to rush). Fantasy-wise, Patricia McKillip taught me how to be lyrical (The Cygnet and the Firebird was the book that convinced me that dragons belong in deserts), but I could just as easily point at Diana Wynne Jones or EM Forster or Ursula K Le Guin. I suppose, if I had to pick one thing, I'd probably point to reading Le Guin's The Language of the Night when I was fifteen, because it was the thing that hit me over the head with the realisation that stories about dragons could also be (in fact, had to be) stories that mattered (if you've never read any of her writing about fantasy, start here, with "A Message About Messages". I don't write like Le Guin, but she shaped the way I think about writing.
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