Q&A with Brigid Kemmerer discussion

You said once the boys were (long ago) vampires. What gave you the idea to switch them over to elementals?

Lisa wrote: "You said once the boys were (long ago) vampires. What gave you the idea to switch them over to elementals?"

The quick and honest answer is that I couldn't sell them as vampires.

The longer answer is that my writing wasn't good enough when they were vampires, and I couldn't land an agent with the story I'd written. I got my first agent with a book called A Wicked Little Rhythm , an urban fantasy about the son of Apollo running a music store in downtown Baltimore. It never sold, and I couldn't get those four brothers out of my head. I'd written about them twice as vampires (once in high school, and again in my twenties). I wanted to do something different, and I kept playing with the number four. I thought about the four horsemen, four-leaf-clovers, four, four, FOUR. Finally I settled on the four elements, because I thought I could really make that fun. And what teenager wouldn't want to be able to control the elements? (Heck, what adult? :-D)

Indeed.
Thanks. I'd been wondering about that for a while.

i have always loved reading about elemental control and i am even writting my own story about teens adn people who can control the elements. Storm was like...all the things i love about books wrapped up in one.
It has like..lots of humor, romance, adventure, even a bit of action. i am only like... 1/4 through Storm. i started it two days ago and it has made me sleep-deprived ^_^. If one of my storys gets published i would love it if i made people not sleep 'casue they HAVE to know what hyappens next!!

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked the book! :-D

Still likeing it ^_^ and no problem