Larissa Brown asked Larissa Brown:

Was it a hard decision to split So Wild A Dream into two books?

Larissa Brown It was a very hard decision, and in fact so difficult for me to make, it took me over a year to realize that it was the best thing to do. I wanted to be absolutely sure I was doing it for artistic reasons, and not because I was impatient or wanted to sell more books. I don't want that to ever be a reason to publish something. So I scrutinized myself and the story over the past year, and I just realized there were some important reasons to do this.

Brosa's and Edna's story is in many ways more epic than Ginn's. It's more of an adventure story as well as a love story, and the draft was very long. Once I read my complete draft, I felt like the book moved too fast and needed some breathing room. Room for thoughts and emotions and the land and sky, room for love to develop, as well as enemies' plots. Even as the writer, I was having trouble holding the whole big picture in my head, while also getting immersed in each scene. So, two books! And they will have a natural stopping point in the middle, where we can breathe, move on with our lives, and come back to the same place, having breathed. No actual cliffhanger, though I do hope that readers will be motivated to come back for a second half.

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