Ask the Author: Cole McCade
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Cole McCade
The best answer I can give is "I don't know." The Undue Arrogance series is produced by Tantor for audio; CI would have to be produced independently through Amazon ACX. I found a narrator I adore on there but I haven't had time to do the work of minute-by-minute review and corrections, and I'm not sure when I will so I don't want to make him wait for me for months with each book. So while it might be a thing in the future, I'm honestly not sure right now. I don't want to commit to something and then renege on it, so...maybe? I'm working on it? Hopefully! Sorry I couldn't give a more clear answer. <3
Cole McCade
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Hope that helps!
Cole McCade
Hi there! It will all be about Malcolm and Seong-Jae, though now and then as we progress past getting them into a more settled relationship, there'll be episodes that lean heavier in focus on other characters but still have Malcolm and Seong-Jae at the center. I am pondering a side story standalone novel/novella about Sade and Huang and how they met, though.
Cole McCade
Hey! I wish I had a definitive answer for you, but I don't. I'm currently working with an audiobook producer on contract with the Undue Arrogance series, but it's more likely I'd have to go independent for CI with how many books there are planned and upcoming, and that means doing it through ACX/Audible myself. Which could lead to audiobook prices being really high thanks to how their costs are structured, and I want to keep things affordable for people since there are so many books. So I have to think about this and look at my options, and I think the best answer I can give is "I'll try." Sorry I couldn't offer anything more concrete!
Cole McCade
Hi there! There'll be 13 books per season, with anywhere from 3-5 seasons depending on how the story plays out. I have a loose framework set up with an outline for five seasons, but stories tend to take on a mind of their own as I write and I may end up veering away from it and finding out that I'm out of plot three or four seasons in. So that will mean ending in that season rather than dragging it out and grinding it into the ground. Total estimate, then, woudl settle at 39-65 books, but the first season is 13 books--and they will develop some sort of relationship in the first season rather than waiting until later seasons, though later seasons may challenge that relationship.
Hope this helps!
(Pretend I did not answer this today; I'm supposed to be exiled from all social media for a week, even GR. *looks nervously over his shoulder*)
Hope this helps!
(Pretend I did not answer this today; I'm supposed to be exiled from all social media for a week, even GR. *looks nervously over his shoulder*)
Cole McCade
There was a point where I think the influence of growing up in New Orleans influenced my writing too much. My early efforts were made of voodoo blood and graveyard smoke, but they were too heavy and thick--all atmosphere, no substance, until it was hard to even figure out what was going on amid vaguely poetic and overly lush descriptions. (Yes, even lusher than my current writing--the way I write now is sparse by comparison.) I always felt like I was trying to capture New Orleans' black magic bourbon scent in my writing, and I was trying much too hard. I've left that behind, though I can't say it's wholly gone. Writers are always evolving, and even when we grow and change and shed the things that don't work, little bits of it cling. So I'll always have a little voodoo in my blood, and in my writing, but it's not a major factor.
As far as how it shaped me as a person...not really sure I can answer that, honestly, since I don't have another life experience of growing up somewhere else for contrast. It was what it was. It may have fostered a certain laissez faire attitude, and possibly fueled my understanding of race relations as a mixed-race person of many cultures who didn't fit into any one of the preset boxes that tend to be expected out of people in Louisiana. But as much as I have a deep and abiding love for the New Orleans of my memories, it's really hard to say that the city itself shaped me in any particular way that wasn't also affected by family, life events, and multiculturalism independent of location.
Though I do have a deeply breathless appreciation of the power of a hurricane, and I miss how it feels to stand outside during the eye of the storm.
As far as how it shaped me as a person...not really sure I can answer that, honestly, since I don't have another life experience of growing up somewhere else for contrast. It was what it was. It may have fostered a certain laissez faire attitude, and possibly fueled my understanding of race relations as a mixed-race person of many cultures who didn't fit into any one of the preset boxes that tend to be expected out of people in Louisiana. But as much as I have a deep and abiding love for the New Orleans of my memories, it's really hard to say that the city itself shaped me in any particular way that wasn't also affected by family, life events, and multiculturalism independent of location.
Though I do have a deeply breathless appreciation of the power of a hurricane, and I miss how it feels to stand outside during the eye of the storm.
Cole McCade
Unfulfilled desires--and I don't just mean sexual. I think that just about everyone in their lives has an unanswered question inside them, a path they didn't take, something they wish they'd done or something they wish they'd had the courage to do. Maybe even a situation they weren't able to salvage, something bad that happened in their lives that they wished they could have averted. It creates a longing inside people, and I build characters from those longings. From those unanswered questions. One unanswered question can become a person, once you add a name and a personality and appearance, things that layer on together and sort of crystallize all at once around that single unanswered question. That question tends to be what drives their story, and makes them who they are.
Cole McCade
Night verging into morning is definitely my time. The whole city is quiet and holding its breath, so that the few other wanderers who walk the 3am streets and dream the same waking dreams I do stand out so distinctly, every sound crisp and clear. It's when my mind is most awake, alive, ideas connecting and growing and evolving, words coming together like music.
...and it sucks that I'm almost never awake at that time because the daywalker life has left me passed out in a snoring, drooling heap.
...and it sucks that I'm almost never awake at that time because the daywalker life has left me passed out in a snoring, drooling heap.
Cole McCade
I'm aiming for July 2015, if I can get it done and through beta reads by mid-March to have extra lead time for editing, advance marketing, and ARC distribution. It's definitely darker--kind of a melancholy erotica with some literary overtones, taboo subjects, and a bit of a gritty urban feel. Think V.C. Andrews meets Charles de Lint.
Cole McCade
I do need to be in a certain headspace to write certain types of stories, but it's not something I have to wait for; I can pretty much push myself into the headspace I need to be in as long as I have the focus I need to write. I wouldn't say I can write any story off the cuff; stories in genres I read, maybe. Give me a plotbunny and I dive in and wing it until I figure out where I'm going. But I don't read things like...military or political thrillers, or mysteries. You could give me a full outline for one of those, not just a plotbunny, and I'd just stare at it and have no idea what to do with it.
Cole McCade
I'm really rusty, but at many points I've had varying levels of fluency in French, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Haitian Creole, and Afrikaans. Two of them are my native languages; English is my third language, but at this point it's also my most fluent. The rest I learned for fun, but I don't practice and I bounce on to new languages so quickly that it gets shoved out of my head and for the most part I can listen and understand, but not converse. Working on Korean now. It's just a thing I like to do.
Lived, no. Visited, yes. I've pondered leaving permanently, with ideal destinations being Hong Kong, Thailand, or Canada.
Hawaii. I was actually planning my next move there, but the quarantine requirements for Tybalt would be a mess and he's too old to endure that, plus all the pet-friendly apartments there (all four or five of them) are gross. But some of my best friends live there, my initial reason for considering it. And I've been craving the sun.
Lived, no. Visited, yes. I've pondered leaving permanently, with ideal destinations being Hong Kong, Thailand, or Canada.
Hawaii. I was actually planning my next move there, but the quarantine requirements for Tybalt would be a mess and he's too old to endure that, plus all the pet-friendly apartments there (all four or five of them) are gross. But some of my best friends live there, my initial reason for considering it. And I've been craving the sun.
Cole McCade
I've been writing since I was a boy. Pretty much since I was old enough to pick up a pencil, I've been coming up with little stories, from scripts for cartoon ideas to a 40-page "novel" I wrote in 6th grade as part of an assignment in the special English program I was put in for gifted and talented students. I didn't start thinking of it as a potential career option until my early twenties, though, and some rather odd but un-subtle nudges that came during some projects I was working on during a corporate 9-5 job.
Since then I've been writing books, submitting to agents and publishers, practicing, getting better, and looking for the right story. There wasn't so much motivation to publish ASCAP as just finding yet another story inside myself, made up from pieces of memories and daydreams and utter randomness, and realizing this story just might be the right one. I have a million half-finished books in a folder, things that just petered out, but ASCAP carried me through to the end in a rush that said I shouldn't let this one go.
I'm called growly because I growl a lot. I rarely smile, though sometimes you can startle a brief laugh out of me. I'm territorial and scowly and solitary and let very few people infringe on my space, and my general reaction to affection is a snarl and gruff, grudging acceptance.
I like cats because they're independent and fickle and beautiful and graceful. And cute. And spastic. And they always seem to know just the right moment to stop being little arseholes and come butt their head under your chin to shake you apart with their purr, right when you need it.
Since then I've been writing books, submitting to agents and publishers, practicing, getting better, and looking for the right story. There wasn't so much motivation to publish ASCAP as just finding yet another story inside myself, made up from pieces of memories and daydreams and utter randomness, and realizing this story just might be the right one. I have a million half-finished books in a folder, things that just petered out, but ASCAP carried me through to the end in a rush that said I shouldn't let this one go.
I'm called growly because I growl a lot. I rarely smile, though sometimes you can startle a brief laugh out of me. I'm territorial and scowly and solitary and let very few people infringe on my space, and my general reaction to affection is a snarl and gruff, grudging acceptance.
I like cats because they're independent and fickle and beautiful and graceful. And cute. And spastic. And they always seem to know just the right moment to stop being little arseholes and come butt their head under your chin to shake you apart with their purr, right when you need it.
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