Seth Fishman's Blog, page 4
March 7, 2015
aarnericachavez:
So this weekend I met sethasfishman (which you may have seen the pictures from)...
So this weekend I met sethasfishman (which you may have seen the pictures from) and here’s what I have to say:
If you have a chance to meet an author, even if you have no idea who they are, go. Go and meet that author.
Authors are amazing people who are really inspirational and always want to talk to someone about something, and it’s really great. They’re some of the best people on this planet.
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I am not sure I have ever received a nicer cooler mention.
Fans at Nova Teen!
Fans at Nova Teen!
March 6, 2015
I'm sorry we scared you away
Ha you didn’t!
Amazing amazing art by Pixar animator Armand Baltazar of Mia in...
Amazing amazing art by Pixar animator Armand Baltazar of Mia in The Dark Water. I get chills looking at her.
March 3, 2015
March 2, 2015
yaseriesinsiders:The second installment of Seth Fishman’s The...
The second installment of Seth Fishman’s The Well’s End series, THE DARK WATER, is out this week! He’s here with us on YA Series Insiders to talk about the book, the series, and his writing. Thank you, Seth, and happy release week!
YA Series Insiders: What is something about X character that you didn’t put in the book/series?
Seth Fishman: Honestly, I always wanted to write about Sutton, and how he secretly murdered his teacher, Avery, the one who discovered the well and the magical properties of the water. And still might. There’s always room for short one-offs.
YASI: Did you have to cut any characters in writing the book?
SF: Trying to build an entire world but have it fill out only 2/3rds of the book (as the remaining third is told from Jimmy’s perspective back in Fenton and the Cave) was difficult. I had a number of pages about the world, characters and politics and had to let many of them go. Small touches, things I love, like more details and personality to the ‘everyday’ Keepers. I gave them names and lives and then they became ‘guard’. It’s a shame.
YASI: What is your favorite writing treat?
SF: Nerds, watermelon.
YASI: What recently published books do you wish you’d written?
SF: Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
YASI: What motivates you to write even when you don’t feel up to it?
SF: If I ever feel uninterested in writing I just read the last five pages I wrote and begin editing. By the time I’m at the last line, I HAVE to keep going.
YASI: By the time you got to the last book in your series, did you wish like mad you could do anything different in the first book?
SF: I wanted to spend more time at Westbrook, at the prepschool. I wanted it to go Lord of the Flies, with all the richies down on the townies, convinced they brought the virus, and locking them in their dorms. But that, too, took too much space. I wish I had more time with the books in terms of space and calendar.
YASI: Any advice for writers currently working on a series?
SF: I did some serious outlining but that wasn’t enough to get me through clean. I wish I spent more time really building the backstory to my characters. The plot was all there but sometimes I had to discover my characters as I went and I’d much rather put one in a room and KNOW what she was going to do because she is who she is, not because I force her to.
About the Book
To escape Blake Sutton’s army at the end of the enthralling The Well’s End, Mia and her friends jump into the newly gurgling fountain of youth and swim to its very bottom. When they resurface, an astounding world awaits them—an entire underground civilization of humans, the Keepers of the Well.
But instead of finding a safe haven, Mia and her gang are quickly embroiled in a dangerous, high-stakes battle royale. If Mia wants to save everyone she loves and make it back home alive, she’s got to get to the water’s Source before Sutton and his troops, who are still hot on her trail.
With new characters and new threats, Seth Fishman has upped the ante fantastically and delivers another tense, fast-paced adventure in a richly imagined world just below our feet.
