Ask the Author: Victoria Lee
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Victoria Lee
Right now these stories are for preorders only; I'm sorry! If you have a friend who preordered you could ask them to forward you the stories.
Victoria Lee
The stories will be sent out over email to everyone who submitted receipts, likely by the end of the first week of April!
Victoria Lee
Yes, it's on the webtoon app or here: http://bit.ly/tfkwebtoon
I love Ames too! She will definitely play a larger role in the second book, although it's still very much Noam and Dara's story.
I love Ames too! She will definitely play a larger role in the second book, although it's still very much Noam and Dara's story.
Victoria Lee
DARA. Dara is definitely my favorite character. I love Noam, but Dara definitely has his own special place in my heart. My favorite character to write, though, was Lehrer. He just has so many layers and so many different aspects to his agenda and it was a lot of fun to write someone who had all these layers of meaning and intent to everything he said and did.
Victoria Lee
I'm glad you like it! It's always great to see webtoon readers discover the book. Mostly the story got pieced together from fragments of other ideas--I had a couple different plots in my head: one was the Noam/Dara/Lehrer trio's character arcs, the other was the magic virus + political tension. I just kind of slammed them together. The first time I wrote the book Noam's personality was super stale in my opinion. I found Dara much easier to write. It took a couple revisions to figure out what I loved most about Noam and bring that to the fore.
Victoria Lee
Thank you so much!! I always love hearing about comic readers discovering the book that way. :)
Victoria Lee
It was definitely heavily inspired by the Regulator! I loved that store so much growing up. I went to school down the street for high school and used to hang out there after classes let out.
Victoria Lee
Noam is aggressively Gryffindor and that's both what makes him lovable and gets him into soooo much trouble.
Victoria Lee
nope, but hopefully soooon!
Victoria Lee
ranch, always! bleu cheese is fine, but that's all it is. it's...fine.
Victoria Lee
Mmmm tricks. For sure tricks. But I try to sprinkle some treats throughout regardless, as little rewards for surviving.
Victoria Lee
How much revision is involved, honestly. It's not that I didn't know it was gonna be a ton of work. But even with my measured expectations, I was surprised. The book is not recognizable compared to its first draft at this point. And trust me...that's a good thing.
Victoria Lee
I love this question, because I've always been a reader first, so that means the list is super long! My favorite book right now is The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and it's been that way for a while.
Although I write speculative fiction, I'm inspired by TSH's attention to personal stakes and complicated interpersonal relationships, and the way it manages to be "about" murder but also about class and privilege and other complicated and nuanced themes at the same time. I am also always inspired by books that can touch on trauma in new and interesting ways, like Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and RF Kuang's The Poppy War.
On the YA side, I love the strong characters and settings crafted by authors like Leigh Bardugo and Naomi Novik, and the moral gray zone that's done so well by Marie Lu and VE/Victoria Schwab. ...This is a really long answer, because there are a lot of books that I love, and I feel like books that I love tend to find there way into my heart and end up influencing what I write--even if indirectly.
Although I write speculative fiction, I'm inspired by TSH's attention to personal stakes and complicated interpersonal relationships, and the way it manages to be "about" murder but also about class and privilege and other complicated and nuanced themes at the same time. I am also always inspired by books that can touch on trauma in new and interesting ways, like Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and RF Kuang's The Poppy War.
On the YA side, I love the strong characters and settings crafted by authors like Leigh Bardugo and Naomi Novik, and the moral gray zone that's done so well by Marie Lu and VE/Victoria Schwab. ...This is a really long answer, because there are a lot of books that I love, and I feel like books that I love tend to find there way into my heart and end up influencing what I write--even if indirectly.
Victoria Lee
Ooh good question. Probably music. I used to play piano at a competitive level, and I also really like to sing. I'd want to either go into piano performance or some kind of musical theater.
Victoria Lee
If you're there, Claribel, yes. Just for you. ;)
Victoria Lee
Honestly it changes a lot! I usually try to write in the mornings, because I'm a grad student and have to ration my time between writing and research. But lately I've been doing a lot of writing in the late evenings, too, when everyone else has gone to bed and it's just me and my insomniac critique partner doing writing sprints into the small hours.
Victoria Lee
I'm a STEM Ph.D. student, so I love thinking about things from a scientific angle, which I guess is part of it. But honestly, at one point I was sitting around thinking about "magic schools" and how rare it is to see classes about magical theory and that kind of thing. And I started wondering what it'd be like if a world treated magic like it was a type of science, and studied it as such. And that led me to wonder...well, what if magic IS science, in a way? So the way that magic works in THE FEVER KING was kind of born out of that. Noam's power of technopathy (control over technology using magic) was just an extension of the kinds of magic powers that I think are really cool: the ones that have deeper, more dangerous implications than those immediately clear on the surface. Plus, I mean. Who wouldn't want to be able to control their laptop with their mind? :)
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