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G.R. Matthews
I'd love to do a physical release of this book. If it can get to 100 ratings on Goodreads, I'll do it!
So, if you can just plug it to all your friends and colleagues, and random strangers on the street :)
So, if you can just plug it to all your friends and colleagues, and random strangers on the street :)
G.R. Matthews
I am very glad you enjoyed it! Please feel free to make all your friends, acquaintances, and random strangers buy it - that will secure the sequel and, hopefully, book 3 too!
G.R. Matthews
Hi,
The sequel is currently with my agent and we'll be looking for good news soon!
The sequel is currently with my agent and we'll be looking for good news soon!
G.R. Matthews
Hi,
I am really glad you loved the book. It makes writing it worthwhile!
The story is a standalone in the sense that it has beginning, middle, and end, but I have written a follow-up which continues the story of the Empire an Six-Kingdoms and am currently writing book #3 too.
Will Kyron and Emlyn return is a very good question and one I can honestly answer, and without spoilers - I hope so.
I am really glad you loved the book. It makes writing it worthwhile!
The story is a standalone in the sense that it has beginning, middle, and end, but I have written a follow-up which continues the story of the Empire an Six-Kingdoms and am currently writing book #3 too.
Will Kyron and Emlyn return is a very good question and one I can honestly answer, and without spoilers - I hope so.
G.R. Matthews
Hi Kelley,
"Cool" heroines? I like to think so!
All the Forbidden List books have family at their core - close and extended. Certainly, in book 2 and 3 there are some exceedingly strong female characters that drive the story onwards.
In book 1 it is, I think, a little more subtle. However, some exceedingly important things happen in that book - and deal with the women who will become central to the story.
I'm proud of the many different female characters in the series. I hope they feel I did them justice.
Thanks for the question.
"Cool" heroines? I like to think so!
All the Forbidden List books have family at their core - close and extended. Certainly, in book 2 and 3 there are some exceedingly strong female characters that drive the story onwards.
In book 1 it is, I think, a little more subtle. However, some exceedingly important things happen in that book - and deal with the women who will become central to the story.
I'm proud of the many different female characters in the series. I hope they feel I did them justice.
Thanks for the question.
G.R. Matthews
Xióngmāo
If it is words alone then she is the one. She doesn't forget much. She is sharp of mind. She is old enough to have seen almost everything and, in my mind, she has that tone... you know the one, the 'wife' tone.
Failing that, she is proficient in more weapons than I can count.
If it is words alone then she is the one. She doesn't forget much. She is sharp of mind. She is old enough to have seen almost everything and, in my mind, she has that tone... you know the one, the 'wife' tone.
Failing that, she is proficient in more weapons than I can count.
G.R. Matthews
Hey,
I've watched Kung Fu movies since I was a lad;Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jet Li, Donnie Yen (< he is in the first book as a kind of nod, just spelled the name slightly differently). I studied Kung Fu for a bit as a lad, and some Judo.
But, more than that, Europe has been explored by so many fantasy authors in the past and now. We are comfortable with it, we know the tropes, the standards, the structures of its society... it is all so normal.
I wanted to write something a little different, even if I follow a similar structure of story. The different culture, the different foods, tastes and scenery all make it more interesting for me to write.
It is a kind of niche (did myself out of thousands of sales that way) that is explored too little... I wanted to discover a new country, a new society.
I hope I did it some justice!
I've watched Kung Fu movies since I was a lad;Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jet Li, Donnie Yen (< he is in the first book as a kind of nod, just spelled the name slightly differently). I studied Kung Fu for a bit as a lad, and some Judo.
But, more than that, Europe has been explored by so many fantasy authors in the past and now. We are comfortable with it, we know the tropes, the standards, the structures of its society... it is all so normal.
I wanted to write something a little different, even if I follow a similar structure of story. The different culture, the different foods, tastes and scenery all make it more interesting for me to write.
It is a kind of niche (did myself out of thousands of sales that way) that is explored too little... I wanted to discover a new country, a new society.
I hope I did it some justice!
G.R. Matthews
Book 2 of the Forbidden List and a Sci-Fi story - no title yet.
G.R. Matthews
The freedom to write, to imagine and create a world. To craft a piece of fiction that you would be happy to read.
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