Worldbuilding and Intersectionally Diverse SFF with Multi-Genre Author E.A. Noble on the Eldritch Girl Podcast
I’m E.A. Noble, and I write Queer and Diverse Fantasy for the Culture. I grew up in Mississippi with my great-grandmother, who encouraged me to turn my dreams into reality. Becoming a writer was always what I wanted to do. As a Queer, fat, Black, AuDHD, and disabled woman, it was important to me to write stories that amplify voices like mine. I want it to be normalized that we can be the love interests, the warriors, the assassins, the main leads, and the superheroes too!
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CMR: Hello, and welcome back to Eldritch Girl, and we’ve got EA Noble with us, which is really exciting. Could you introduce yourself to everyone please?
EAN: Yes, I am EA Noble, and I write queer and diverse fantasy and Gothic literature for the culture. What that means is, when you open up one of my books, I hope you find yourselves within the pages.
CMR: Your latest book, the Supersized Bubblegum book, is on my TBR, and I’m so excited to get to that. We are going to be talking about that, I think, but also mainly about your high fantasy novel as well, When Blood Meets Earth, as well, and we’re going to hear a clip from that from the forthcoming audiobook. So this was on femme audio takeover. Could you just give us a little bit of context about the extract we’re going to hear and tell us a little bit about that book?
EAN: Yes, so this scene takes place between Candia and and my main character, Bellamy, which is a badass, and Bellamy has traveled very far because there have been rumors, things started, that the Fire King is about to launch a war against the 6 other kingdoms. And Candia is the Fire King’s daughter, and she has agreed to meet, and Bellamy is basically confronting her about her place and her role in this war that’s about to be unleashed in this novel.
CMR: Mm. Mm, okay.
EAN: Mmhm. Also, the narrator, I just want to say, I just want to say the narrator of this is A’rese (ar-ess-ay), I hope I said that right, but her name is A’rese. And she will be officially in production with my novel in January. So look out for that, because it’ll be in full production soon.
Extract from When Blood Meets Earth
Narrator: A’rese.
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♬ original sound – E.A. Noble
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Audio Captions:
Candia shook her head. “No, because it has to be said. For centuries your people have held our pasts over our heads, refusing to let it go. Punishing us for maleficence that our forefathers have done? Is it not enough that the spirits cursed us? Do you people stop and think about the harm your persistent judgments do to us? How we feel? How we are hunted every day by ghosts of the before?” Candia’s voice cracked as tears bloomed.
The tiny prickles underneath my [Bellamy’s] skin spread to my entire left side. “I’m going to say this once, and I will not say it again. You need to lower your tone when speaking to me.”
Candia scoffed.
“Second,” I continued. “I’m holding you accountable for what you are taking part in now. Your role in this matter. You continued to play it, instead of dismantling it entirely. You refuse to use your role to put an end to those who wish to continue a legacy filled with bloody battlefields and chains. The past will continue to be held over your head because people like you haven’t learned from it. And now there’s another war coming, and all you can offer is tears.” I sneered. “And you have the nerve to sit across from me like you’re the fucking victim? Like you’re not sitting at the table with your father, as he plans to bring destruction upon us all? Snatching babies from their cradles, and forcing them into a world where they are nothing but science experiments?” My entire body itched intensely as I spoke through clenched teeth. “Dry your fucking tears. They are not welcome here.”
EAN: Oooh! Intense.
CMR: I love that clip. And I really love the narrator. I think, yeah, it’s such a good job, right? That’s going to be so exciting. So yeah, I just need to… Let’s let that settle for a bit.
EAN: I know!
CMR: Sit with that.
EAN: Right.
CMR: So this fantasy novel obviously has some deep themes. This clip especially showcases ideas of personal and collective accountability. You’ve got that – you said Gothic stories in your introduction, and this definitely has the Gothic theme of haunted by the past coming through there on a systemic as well as an individual level. And were these themes that organically grew from your drafts of the story, or did you set out to incorporate them from the start?
EAN: So I’m one of those type of writers that believe that all books should have a theme. Not everybody believes that, I just, wanna you know, preface that, but I do. And when you read my stories, there is an overall underlying theme that happens through the books.
Now, this particular scene, I did not set out for it. It happened due to the fact of in my world, there were seven continents, much like our own. And what happened was these humans decided to harness the power of gods, and one of the powers that they harness is of the Fire Spirit, and there are seven spirits. So you have fire, earth, wind, water, life, reaper, moon. Those are the seven spirits.
So when these people, these humans, capture the Fire Spirit, they took her power, and they used that power as a weapon to destroy the seven continents, literally killing billions of people, and for their punishment they were cursed and pushed to the side.
So in this world, in the present day, the world that we are in is a Pangea. All the people have been gathered into one location. And within that one location, there are seven kingdoms, and everybody exiles the Fire Spirit or the Fire Kingdom, because of the past, and what they’ve done, even though this is almost 600 years later.
And so what Candia is saying is, we are the only ones born with no magic, with no power, and is it not enough? Have we suffered enough? How long are we going to get punished for our atrocities that we’ve committed?
And Candia goes on to even say, I didn’t steal nobody’s power. I never hunted down the Fire Spirit and took away the Fire Spirit’s magic. I didn’t do it. And yet she come from a bloodline that were one of the first people who hunted the Fire Spirit down and took away the power. You know what I mean. She’s a princess. And so we have that conversation happening on Candia’s end.
And then for Bellamy side of the story, where she’s coming from is, she’s also a princess, and she feels like it is her duty to protect those that you know cannot protect themselves. Those that are weak. It’s her duty to stand up for her people. And here it is almost 600 years later, and your father is launching a war against the kingdoms, and Bellamy is just saying, you say you don’t want to be held accountable for past sins that you didn’t commit, and yet you sit next to your father, as he’s planning to launch another war on all the kingdoms, killing babies, stealing them from the cradles, forcing people into the military forcing people, you know, to, to go through this war, which is meaningless. You obviously haven’t learned from your past, because if you had, you will stop your father at all costs for launching this war that’s about to happen.
And so we having these two conversations at the same time, and that like I said, it was not something that I set out to have was something that obviously needed to happen with those two perspectives colliding at once.
CMR: There’s such a lot going on there as well, and I think in terms of worldbuilding there’s a lot going on. You’ve got this really interesting set up of locations, like the Pangea countries. And – so there’s obviously, in a Pangea, there’s no separate continents, if anyone doesn’t know what that means.
EAN: Right, mmhm. Yeah.
CMR: It’s – so, the Pangea is basically where it’s one continent. And in this case it’s divided up into like seven kingdoms. So you don’t have those like. There’s no sea to cross. There’s no, there’s no barriers. Necessarily. There’s, you know, natural borders like mountains and rivers. But yeah, so why did you? How did you come up with that? And let’s talk a little bit more about that world building, because I think that’s really interesting. And I love the idea of the seven spirits and the spheres of, of, yeah, that you’ve got going on and like, what was your world building process like, how did you create your world as you drafted? Do you kind of work in the themes of the story and then create the world to fit those themes, or do you create the world first, and then the story grows from that?
EAN: Okay. So my world building starts with character, and everything that I always do always starts with character. And once I get that character or that vision, it starts to expand the world that’s around them.
As you read any of my books, you will quickly see that I am a character driven writer and storyteller. I read books, and if I’m not in love with your characters, I don’t care how many awards you have. I’m never – I’m gonna DNF! [The acronym for Did Not Finish, often used as a verb in English-speaking online book/reviewer circles]
I have to love your characters. I don’t care how many plots, how fast is going, how slow is going. Give me character.
So when I began my world building it started with Bellamy, and it started with this princess. That’s not a princess, but she is a princess. But why isn’t she a princess? What happened for her to be? Because Princess Bellamy’s mother is an exile queen. Again, there are seven kingdoms, and Bellamy comes from the lineage of the Earth Kingdom. So my book is a mixture of The Poppy War and Avatar: The Last Airbender. So – keep that in mind.
So Bellamy’s mother is an exiled Earth Queen, and she’s living in the Reaper Kingdom. Why?
And then I just begin to start building, and I keep asking myself why, why, why, like I’m a 2 year old child trying to explain to myself things. And then the world building kind of just pans out from there, and I get the history and the bloodline of Bellamy, where she stemmed from, where did these elemental powers come from, and what was the world like before the what we call the ‘mortem era’? So there’s pre-mortem era. There’s mortem era, and there’s post-mortem era. So the death age, or before the death age, you know. Bellamy comes from a long line where when the war was happening and the earth was literally being destroyed. There was just one woman who came out, and she cried upon the gods.
(And I am Gullah-Geechee. So that’s a rich Afro-American culture that comes from South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Southern States, where slave ships dropped us off at like, the biggest ports. And so, being Gullah-Geechee, we have our own black magic, some people call it vodou, and some people call it hoodoo, but what it really is, is protection, ancestral magic.)
And so this woman was like, I need help. You see, they’re destroying the world. So she put her hand in the soil and called upon the six sleeping spirits to come and rescue the universe. And thus elementals were born. So when they finished that, locking the Fire Spirit away because Fire Spirit went mad, the six spirits gave the six kingdoms magical powers, or elemental powers, so in times of need they can help each other, lift each other, and they would never be powerless again.
And so that’s how the world started to take shape for me. And I kind of just built upon that until I got the world that I got today. I hope that was okay. [laughs]
CMR: You could talk literally, you could talk worldbuilding at me for hours, and I’d be like, yes, yes, tell me more.
EAN: Oh yeah. [laughs]
CMR: This is good. This is the good stuff.
[They both laugh]
CMR: I used to teach a class on British national identities, which sounds incredibly dry. But that was — actually — why am I here? And how do I speak this language? And why am I in this country is one of the interactive exercises I used to play with my students, and I give them like, based on the history of the British Isles. This is at the end of the course, so they would have known about migration within Britain, and like, the Anglo-Saxon invasions, and all that kind of stuff. So I’d be like, why would you be a person from country A, but you recognize the King of Country B, and you speak the language of B, but you have the religion of A, or you … You know what I mean? And they had to come up with these reasons why, and they have to give me historical answers for it. Yeah, anyway, your worldbuilding —
EAN: Yes, yes, that’s literally — yes.
CMR: I was like, ahh!! [They laugh] Because that’s just how it is, right.
EAN: Yes!
CMR: It’s rooted in in so much real history.
EAN: Yes, exactly. Because that’s a great point, and I love that you made that parallel to your teaching, because that’s exactly that’s exactly like — you start with a character. They’re the person. This person believes in this, their religion is this, but they are this, this and this. So what happened to make this person, you know, all these things in one, and then you out build out the world like that. Yeah.
CMR: Yeah, I think also, like, if you’re building on such a rich heritage and tradition, and you’re trying to create a rich heritage and tradition that feels real, you kind of have to ask those deep questions and look at historical parallels and see how this happens for people in real life, right.
EAN: Yeah, mmhm.
CMR: Because that creates those those layers for the world to really come alive. Yeah, hundred per cent. I’m so tempted as well to ask you about the world building you did for your other book, which is Supersized Bubblegum.
EAN: I don’t mind!
CMR: Which is a totally different, totally different genre, because you are a multi genre author, and I feel like it would be remiss not to bring that up in the interview.
EAN: I am. Oh, yeah, yeah.
CMR: [There are] Many, many strings to this bow, because there you’re dealing with an AU, an alternative universe of our world. So how did you go about creating your world building for that? Because you’ve obviously got all of these rich ideas for the fantasy that you can draw on. But did you find creating an alternative universe world a little bit different to that, or like what was your process?
EAN: No, mm-mm. It was not different to it at all. Again I start with a character, and I know we’re talking about world building, and it’s really weird to say, Oh, you know, you start with the character, because I just was watching another world building video, and no matter how many I watch, they always say they start with like the actual reality of the world. But that just doesn’t happen for me!
And so I saw this Fatty Baddie in my head, you know. And I’m just like, oooh! and I’m just like, uh-huh, thanks card giving, body, big, love it. And I’m just like, okay, so what’s your story? And I was just thinking, like, how cute would it be that she gained superpowers and by actually eating food? And I’m just like oh, I would love that actually, you know, if I could, I would do that.
CMR: Yeah!
EAN: And then I started like building on like her wants, these desires. And I started thinking about the world. It started with her. Then it went to her apartment unit. Then I’m just like, okay. What type of apartment is she staying in – 1st or second floor? Big girls gotta know, because I’m first floor. I’m 1st floor all the way. We started there, and then it crept off into the streets, and then it crept off into this grocery– not this grocery store, but this convenience store, and then it crept off into politics and was surrounding the politics. Then it crept off into this whole entire universe, where superbeings work with the police. There are some people that’s born with superpowers, some people that are not. And I was thinking to myself, what can I liken this world to?
And cause the one thing I want people to know, if you’re listening; nothing is new under the sun. We try our hardest to create these unique, beautiful things that nobody else has. I’m sorry, somebody else has it. You probably just never heard of somebody else having it, but somebody else has it, and they’re probably doing it, you know, a lot better or a lot worse, who cares? But it exists somewhere.
So, I started looking up like worlds that mimic the world that I have in my head with superheroes work with authorities and stuff like that. And it just so happens that I watch The Boys. I don’t know if you have ever heard of The Boys on Amazon Prime.
CMR: Yeah, we’ve got that, that’s made it to the UK.
EAN: Yes, and you know how crazy they are. And so I was thinking, Yeah, this Supersized Bubblegum can be very seriously related to, almost in the universe of, The Boys.
CMR: Okay!
EAN: It’s the exact same dynamic that I have. And so I use that to also add to the layers of my world and created the, you know, city of Chimango, which is kind of like a playoff of the city of Chicago. So.
CMR: Right. Aw, I love that, I like that it’s the same process each time, but it just goes to show that that process is so versatile. And you can create multiple things by taking the same starting point and then just like building and layering and layering. Yeah.
EAN: Yeah.
CMR: I think that’s also something that came up in Georgina Kiersten’s interview as well when they were talking about their world building process. That was that was quite cool to hear. Yeah. It’s a slightly different process, but also from a character and outwards.
I think that’s just such a good way to go, honestly. But I’m very biased because I’m a character driven author as well. So I feel like I need to go out and find, like a world building orientated author, just to like add balance.
[laughter]
EAN: Right. So the way I see— Right, so I’m an anime nerd, and I’m not a big gamer, but I’m a big gamer watcher like I love watching streamers. When I’m at work, I watch streamers. When I’m at play, I watch streamers when I need to house clean, I put on somebody that’s streaming some type of horror. I love horror streamers. So some type of horror streamer. Indiana Jones just came out, so I’m watching a streamer play that through as well. So like–
CMR: Fab, yeah.
EAN: –Right. And so when you enter a game right, you don’t enter the world. No, usually you enter the character. You go character first, and then some games and some horror games as well. You build your character’s face the way they look, the way they dress, their style. And then, once you build that character, that character is being released into some random place to which you have to sometimes build a house, build a hut, build whatever. And you start just creating these little moments within the game that, you know.
I think I was playing… I think I was watching one of my favorite streamers play Sons of the Forest, and if you play Sons of the Forest, you’re dropped out of this airplane and landed into this beautiful lush world, and you have to build your hut. You have to meet characters around you. You have to go in searching for like mountains and and valleys and food and cutting down trees, and before you even get to the plot of Sons of the Forest, you know what I mean.
CMR: Yeah.
EAN: So I feel like. It’s the same way, for when I build my world, I start with my character. What she looks like, what or what they look like, what are their wants beliefs? What are their desires? What are they here for? And then they’re in this white room, and then I start building out the white room and then expand past the white room and see what’s around the white room. You know what I mean.
CMR: Yeah.
EAN: So it’s kind of like that.
CMR: God, this is so fun. Because the next question is, how do you develop your characters so you can explore the issues and the themes that you want to get at within the book.
EAN: Yeah. So I love characters, I love characters, I love characters. And the first thing about developing multi-faceted characters is understanding that characters are complex. As humans, we are complex. We are walking contradictions. Like, okay, I’m fat. Yeah, I want to lose weight. But I’m about to go get McDonald’s after this interview. You know what I mean. So it’s like, we are walking contradictions sometimes, and we aren’t just one note, and I think that a lot of books that don’t do the justice of developing their characters, they tend to fall flat. Their characters tend to fall flat because they’re one note. They just added one layer. They are very small minded and narrow minded as to what it is that they want, and that is not how humans function. I don’t care if you’re a himbo or a bimbo. You still have layers. You know what I mean. You’re just not single-minded. You have depth.
First you have to figure out the ghost. What are they hunted by? Then you have to figure out what lies have they told themselves? Then you have to figure out, what do they need? What do they want? What are their desires? Because sometimes what they need is not what they necessarily want, and what they desire is not necessarily what they need.
So you have to figure out how are they traversing through the world with the perspectives that they have, and then you have to just keep building and adding layers.
I think of it, I think of character building, like art. So we have a drawer. Because I get obsessed with those videos too late at night. And I like to watch… Okay, you’re learning too much about me and what I do when no one’s looking. But I like to… I also like to watch those cleaning carpet videos, but that’s neither here or there.
[they both laugh]
So I like to watch like drawers render their images from like start to beginning, and I find it very fascinating that even very experienced drawers they start off with like circles, triangles, and all these different types of shapes and objects, and then once they get the curve of the body correctly, they start erasing lines and combining the lines and smoothing the lines out, and then they keep adding layers like shadow, and how they tilt the brows, how they move the hair! And then they just keep building and building and building until they add the skin, the clothes, the eye color, and it just comes to life.
But it starts sometimes with a circle, you know, and that is character building as well. Sometimes you have to start with that flat, okay, we know she’s obsessed with a boy, or obsessed with some some romance. We know she’s there. But why, and what will happen? And what if she doesn’t get it? And what if she wants something else? What does she like to do in her spare time? Is it always an obsession with someone? Or like, how deep can we get her — or him? (I don’t know why I’m using “her”. I write mostly women. That’s why.)
So it’s like, how deep can we get them? And we’re just adding on those layers, into those layers, into those layers, until your characters no longer feel like characters, but they actually feel like realized people.
CMR: Yeah.
EAN: Yeah.
CMR: Do you have a program that you put like the notes into? Or do you have flashcards or like, how do you — I’m always fascinated how people actually keep track of things.
EAN: I use a few programs. when I first started writing, I use Milanote. But I don’t use that anymore. Because there’s other softwares that I like a lot better than Milanote. But it was like a electronic kind of posty card type of thing. But now I use a software called Obsidian.
I love Obsidian. It works with my brain. It’s also free. And that’s a very important to indie authors. Because it takes a lot of money to produce a book. So this software is free. You can do upgrades, but honestly, I’m really big on. They give you. They give you so much in the free version that I haven’t yet needed to upgrade. But it’s “Obsidian”.
And then the next thing that I like to use is Novlr. I love Novlr, I don’t hear a lot of people talk about Novlr, but it allows me to section out my stories, because one thing I also do is before I write a chapter, I put a a chapter summary.
So I keep everything in like those two things [Obsidian and Novlr]. So, yeah.
CMR: Yeah, no, I. Yeah. I’ve always fascinated by that, because people keep showing me stuff. And I’m like, I need this in my life. And then I’m back to notebooks where I write everything by hand, and then I lose the notebook, and I’m like why, why am I doing this to myself. [laughs]
EAN: Yeah, no, right. Novlr and Obsidian. So Obsidian works a lot like Scrivener in a way. But I think Obsidian is a lot better. Because Scrivener is so… I’m autistic and ADHD. So when I go to Scrivener, it’s just overwhelming. It’s like a sensory overload, and I never know where to start, because it’s too much to start.
CMR: I felt the same, I tried it and got like, oh my God, what am I doing?? Yeah.
EAN: Yeah! Obsidian, however, although Obsidian is a learning curve, if you go to Obsidian’s page, there is this handsome young man, I sound like my grandma, there is a handsome young man, who teaches how, step by step, of how to use Obsidian, and once you learn how to use it, it’s really up to you, and you can fashion it however you need it to be fashioned for your brain. But one thing I love about Obsidian, is it interconnects everything.
So they have like this little graph that if you want to see how all these things connect, you hit this button and this and this map just populates of how all of your characters interconnect, and how the world interconnect. It’s so gorgeous! I love it. I love it.
CMR: Oh, wow! Yeah, okay. I’d never heard of it before. I’m gonna try it. Sorry, I sidetracked us. Sidetracked.
EAN: I love it. I love it. I love it so much, definitely try it out. It is a learning curve. It really is. But once you learn it, you can beat the curve, baby. You can. You can use it and it’s a lifesaver.
CMR: that’s so good to know. Yeah, okay, I’m going to try that. I was going to ask as well, what are your main goals as an author, so not just in terms of your writing, but in terms of what you want for readers of your books to experience, because you’ve just got so much going on. You’ve got some really detailed world building. You’ve got these characters. You’ve got the layering of both of these. So you’re exploring deep themes of like accountability, and haunted by the past, and all of these really layered dark themes as well. So what do you want your readers to experience when they pick up one of your books?
EAN: I want them first to experience a world that’s not their own. I don’t want to shy away from hard conversations, but also I don’t want my readers to feel as though they’re being preached to. So everything that I write, it needs to be organically from, and relevant to, the world and the characters in the world.
However, when a reader reads my book, I want them to take away something new about themselves. Rather, they have learned to question something, or they have been inspired. I think there was a one reader who read When Blood Meets Earth, and for some reason she was inspired by every quote at the top of the page, and she was just like, Oh, I love these quotes. Oh, I love these quotes. And she kept trying to Google the quotes to figure out where I get them from, and a lot of the quotes is just quotes I’ve made up.
[laughter]
I totally made these up. You’re not going to find them anywhere. They’re mine.
And she was just like, Oh, I just love these quotes. I just want to put them on a coffee mug, and she just was obsessed with the quotes, and for some reason those quotes were just teaching her something new about the world, about her own personal world. And so whenever you read my book, I want my readers to feel seen. I want them to feel heard. I want them to feel like, you know, it’s okay not to be perfect, that it’s okay to grow. It’s okay to explore. It’s okay to imagine. Especially because I do write mostly New Adult, but I also write Adult.
And I think sometimes the industry is– they tend to push YA so much. And I understand why, but they push YA so much, and adults tend to– when you’re reading as an adult, it’s like, Oh, I have to read a certain type of book because I’m an adult.
And I don’t want that. I want, even though you’re an adult, I don’t care if you’re 30, 40, 50, 60, when you open up my books, I want you to imagine worlds beyond ours. Dragons, fairies, fae, fat women who eat bubblegum and gain superpowers. I want you to be transformed, and enjoy the world that you’re in.
[laughter]
CMR: That’s such a great answer. Yeah, that’s beautiful. And I’m so excited because Supersized Bubblegum is on my list after I’ve read Jamison Shea’s next one, I Am The Dark That Answers When You Call. But yeah, I’ve been wanting to read Supersized Bubblegum since it came out.
EAN: Yeah, so Supersized Bubblegum is, ah… mm. I will say, it has its grotesque moments.
CMR: Good. I’m in. Yes.
[laughter]
EAN: Okay. Because one person, one of my readers who absolutely loves everything that I write – I always talk about her because I love her so much – but she couldn’t make it past Chapter 3, because it gave her nightmares and I’m just like, I swear, I swear after Chapter 3, it’s not as grotesque. After Chapter 3, I’m telling you it’s fine, okay, it’s fine. She’s like, no, I can’t.
[laughter]
CMR: Oh, wow! That’s an endorsement, I think.
[laughter]
EAN: Okay, so here’s the thing about me. I don’t like books that start off with a bang, and then in Chapter 2 or Chapter 3, drop me. You get that drop. I call it the drop. I don’t know the proper name for it, but I call it the drop. So we start off fire. You’re just like, Oh, this book about to be good. Rub my fingers, lick my lips. Yeah. And then, Chapter 3 is just like, o-kay, and then you spend the rest of the time trying to catch that Chapter 1 high… and the high just ain’t high-ing. Like, what is happening? Give me what I came here for! And then it doesn’t get good until like after the midpoint. You know what I mean. I hate, I loathe books like that. And so my stories tend to go slow and rev up.
So. Chapter 1 isn’t just, you know. Wham, Bang, Thank you, Ma’am. No, it’s get to know me. It’s not info dumping either, because I don’t like that either, but it’s dropping you into a world that is already realized. And somebody described it as you just got let in on the in-circle. And now you’re just sitting there for a minute while these other people are making all these dynamics, and you’re just trying to figure out like the cadence, the jokes, the inside jokes. And so you’re trying to pick up on all those things. But like once you pick it up, it’s like you’re in. You’re in now. You’re in with the in-crowd.
CMR: Yeah.
EAN: And that’s how I tend to take my books. So they continually rev up as yeah as it goes. Yeah.
CMR: Ah, yes.
[laughter]
CMR: I was already in. It’s been sold to me 300 times over now.
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CMR: So just before we go, because I think this is all we’ve got time for. Would you like to let us know anything that you’ve got coming up in 2025? I’m going to give you some space just to highlight as well ways that we can support you. Let us know how we can support, and what you’ve got coming up.
EAN: Y’all, I have so much going on in 2025 that I don’t even know where my head is right now. So When Blood Meets Earth, I will say, as an author, you know that is my debut novel, and I did make some mistakes, like, grammar. So When Blood Meets Earth has just finished being re-edited. A lot of the grammar is fixed, and the story is still fire. Okay? but the editing got it got updated. I got new art in the book. I got new glossary. I also added new character art.
And then the production of the audio book is coming out what started next year, and it should be out by the end of year. Also, Book 2 will be set for pre-order. That’s coming out at the end of the year as well.
So please follow me, I’m on Facebook. I have a Facebook group. So if I disappear off the Internet, I don’t disappear in my Facebook group. So just if you want to join and see what I’m doing. Go there. I’m on Threads. I’m on Tiktok, and my website is theeajournal.me. (Not .com; .me).
I’m also hosting an anthology with a few of my other favorite authors, and we are coming out with something on mythology, called They Who Swallow the Sun.
And it’s a very dark, speculative fiction. So if you have fantasy, sci-fi horror. All of that that’s in this book. And it is. And I just received the cover back for it. And when I tell you it is tea! Okay. Okay, so yeah, I have a lot of things going on next year. So please follow me and support me. And I really appreciate it.
CMR: I’m going to put all of your links in the transcript, so people can go to cmrosens.com and grab the transcript from there. But yes, so follow E.A. Noble @authoreanoble across all of the platforms.
EAN: Yeah, yeah.
CMR: That is unfortunately all we have time for, so I will see you next week. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you, E.A. Noble, for coming on the show.
EAN: Any time, any time. Thank you for having me.
CMR: It’s been an absolute pleasure.
