NEXT WEEK...
Can you believe it... Odium VIII releases next week. I'm a little mind blown over that. It felt like so long ago that I was picking images for the cover and finishing off the last chapters and now it's practically here!
Funnily enough though, as I sit here contemplating the release and all the nerves and excitement that come with it, I was thinking about how this little story idea of mine was birthed.
Almost 10 years ago to the month Nina and all her quirkiness came to me. Her sass and vulnerability, her total cluelessness when it came to survival in any form. Her defence mechanisms. Her weaknesses. The sheer human nature of her that makes her so relatable to so many of you.
I had read so many zompoc books where the women were hard without being vulnerable. They were these brutal, post-apocalyptic warriors that could survive on their own, and though I loved the badassery of that, it just felt so ingenuine. I mean, I couldn't fight. I had never shot a gun. I didn't know how to forage or skin a rabbit. I was also weak with compassion...and yet, wasn't that what also made me a strong woman? That I HAD compassion. That I WAS vulnerable. And I realised that half of what makes us strong people was being able to adapt. To grow and not get stuck in our ways. To let love in but protect our hearts just as equally.
So Nina was born.
A feisty, sassy, potty mouthed, woman who made me laugh and cry as much as she made me want to throw things.
I didn't want to write JUST another romance story though. Or JUST another survival story. I wanted both. i wanted to show someone willing to change, willing to love, willing to sacrifice, willing to find humour in awful situations, willing to say what she actually thinks without the fear of being rejected.
I think I did that. I hope I did.
ODIUM VIII turns a corner on the story before it. It moves on from the horrors and shows the reader what comes next. What happens in the aftermath of such atrocities, and how it affects people. It shows how Odium is still about 'one woman's unwavering determination to live' and how that determination for survival can inspire even the most bleakest of minds to keep on going. To fight when you think it's all over.
At least I hope so.
Love
Claire
Funnily enough though, as I sit here contemplating the release and all the nerves and excitement that come with it, I was thinking about how this little story idea of mine was birthed.
Almost 10 years ago to the month Nina and all her quirkiness came to me. Her sass and vulnerability, her total cluelessness when it came to survival in any form. Her defence mechanisms. Her weaknesses. The sheer human nature of her that makes her so relatable to so many of you.
I had read so many zompoc books where the women were hard without being vulnerable. They were these brutal, post-apocalyptic warriors that could survive on their own, and though I loved the badassery of that, it just felt so ingenuine. I mean, I couldn't fight. I had never shot a gun. I didn't know how to forage or skin a rabbit. I was also weak with compassion...and yet, wasn't that what also made me a strong woman? That I HAD compassion. That I WAS vulnerable. And I realised that half of what makes us strong people was being able to adapt. To grow and not get stuck in our ways. To let love in but protect our hearts just as equally.
So Nina was born.
A feisty, sassy, potty mouthed, woman who made me laugh and cry as much as she made me want to throw things.
I didn't want to write JUST another romance story though. Or JUST another survival story. I wanted both. i wanted to show someone willing to change, willing to love, willing to sacrifice, willing to find humour in awful situations, willing to say what she actually thinks without the fear of being rejected.
I think I did that. I hope I did.
ODIUM VIII turns a corner on the story before it. It moves on from the horrors and shows the reader what comes next. What happens in the aftermath of such atrocities, and how it affects people. It shows how Odium is still about 'one woman's unwavering determination to live' and how that determination for survival can inspire even the most bleakest of minds to keep on going. To fight when you think it's all over.
At least I hope so.
Love
Claire
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