Ask the Author: S. E. Henry
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S. E. Henry
The point when, while typing, the words disappear off the page and all that remains is the story.
S. E. Henry
Read in the genre you want to write in. Don't get enmeshed in others' preconceived ideas of the correct way to publish your book. Instead, explore every option that puts your stories in front of readers. They are the ones who in the end really matter.
S. E. Henry
The idea for the Dream Guardian series came, in fact, from a dream. I never dream as myself, but as other people, and in color. FWIW. When I woke up, I wrote as much of it down as I could. It was pretty fantastical and the scene itself followed me around for months: A teenage girl (Terryn) trying to learn magic at a school in a dream world and she makes a really big mistake.
I was a reporter at the time and working on a middle grade novel about a girl with a pet spider, which I was workshopping with my local writers' group. I did not have time to write what was clearerly an epic fantasy. Finally, I gave up and sat down and started writing. What I thought was one book, turned into two and then a trilogy and now I'm suspecting there could be four books. And the scene that started it all? It'll be in Book 3, No Time to Die.
I was a reporter at the time and working on a middle grade novel about a girl with a pet spider, which I was workshopping with my local writers' group. I did not have time to write what was clearerly an epic fantasy. Finally, I gave up and sat down and started writing. What I thought was one book, turned into two and then a trilogy and now I'm suspecting there could be four books. And the scene that started it all? It'll be in Book 3, No Time to Die.
S. E. Henry
I'm currently working on plotting book 3. I have about 15K words written and know what the end scene will be. It's epic. Then, I am getting developmental edits back from the editor on Book 2 here soon and will work the rest of the summer on revisions and then copy edits in the fall of 2022.
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