The Next Big Thing Week 9
Thanks to A K Taylor who tagged me in her blog Backwoods Author to take part in The Next Big Thing.
Remember how when you were a kid if you were tagged in the playground you might have to do a forfeit and then tag someone else? Well that's what happens in The Next Big Thing. Only my forfeit is to answer ten interview questions about my next book on this blog before tagging five other authors to take part.
My answers to the questions:What is the working title of your book?
Love of Shadows
Where did the idea come from for the book?
The book is the second in the Shadows Trilogy and picks up Anya/Judith’s story from the end of Girl in the Glass . In this book we follow Judith as she becomes a healer and as her mentor Elma had foretold gets in to trouble with the authorities. I was influenced by the history of the persecution of women. As the title gives away we learn more about the beings known as Shadows. Oh and Judith falls in love.
What genre does your book fall under?
Fantasy (magic realism), women’s fiction.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Judith – a young Angelina JolieThe Rottweiler – Ralph FiennesSarah – Saoirse Ronan Bruno – a sensitive strong man with a bass voice and open face, any ideas welcome
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Woman-healer defies persecution and finds love
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Self-published, first as an e-book and later as a paperback.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Three months (but that included Christmas and New Year)
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Would it be a cheat to say Girl in the Glass? I genuinely am having problems answering this. I have set myself the challenge of reading a magic realism book a week to make myself more aware of the genre and other writers in it. I didn’t know it was my genre, until someone reviewed my book and told me so. You can find out about my challenge on http://www.magic-realism.net.
In the wider context I would probably compare it to Ursula Le Guin’s Earthseabecause she so influenced how I combine reality and fantasy plus it’s about a young person realising her potential and the cost of that. From a woman’s fiction angle I suppose Jane Eyre – again very different from my book, but it’s about an undervalued young woman denied love when young finding her place in the world, plus it uses the first person narrative.
Who or What inspired you to write this book?
The character of Judith is influenced by a lot of different women. I worked with disadvantaged women (asylum seekers, homeless, abused women) for many years and their tales of endurance and survival have inspired the whole trilogy. There are two people close to me who have impacted on the story – both women for a variety of reasons have undervalued themselves even though they were wonderful, generous and talented.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Judith is one hell of a girl: headstrong, beautiful, flawed and loveable.Now it's my turn to tag people:
Deborah BattermanFiona Phillips Margaret Wacker Judith van PraagJudith Newton
Please visit their blogs. They will be publishing their answers to the questions in week 10 (between the 27th October and 3rd September)
Message for the tagged authors and interested others:
Rules of The Next Big Thing***Use this format for your post
***Answer the ten questions about your current WIP (Work In Progress)
***Tag five other writers/bloggers and add their links so we can hop over and meet them.Ten Interview Questions for The Next Big Thing:
What is the working title of your book?Where did the idea come from for the book?What genre does your book fall under?Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?Who or What inspired you to write this book?What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Include the link of who tagged you and this explanation for the people you have tagged.
Piece of advice from Zoe: Line up your five people in advance.
Remember how when you were a kid if you were tagged in the playground you might have to do a forfeit and then tag someone else? Well that's what happens in The Next Big Thing. Only my forfeit is to answer ten interview questions about my next book on this blog before tagging five other authors to take part.
My answers to the questions:What is the working title of your book?
Love of Shadows
Where did the idea come from for the book?
The book is the second in the Shadows Trilogy and picks up Anya/Judith’s story from the end of Girl in the Glass . In this book we follow Judith as she becomes a healer and as her mentor Elma had foretold gets in to trouble with the authorities. I was influenced by the history of the persecution of women. As the title gives away we learn more about the beings known as Shadows. Oh and Judith falls in love.
What genre does your book fall under?
Fantasy (magic realism), women’s fiction.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Judith – a young Angelina JolieThe Rottweiler – Ralph FiennesSarah – Saoirse Ronan Bruno – a sensitive strong man with a bass voice and open face, any ideas welcome
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Woman-healer defies persecution and finds love
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Self-published, first as an e-book and later as a paperback.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Three months (but that included Christmas and New Year)
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Would it be a cheat to say Girl in the Glass? I genuinely am having problems answering this. I have set myself the challenge of reading a magic realism book a week to make myself more aware of the genre and other writers in it. I didn’t know it was my genre, until someone reviewed my book and told me so. You can find out about my challenge on http://www.magic-realism.net.
In the wider context I would probably compare it to Ursula Le Guin’s Earthseabecause she so influenced how I combine reality and fantasy plus it’s about a young person realising her potential and the cost of that. From a woman’s fiction angle I suppose Jane Eyre – again very different from my book, but it’s about an undervalued young woman denied love when young finding her place in the world, plus it uses the first person narrative.
Who or What inspired you to write this book?
The character of Judith is influenced by a lot of different women. I worked with disadvantaged women (asylum seekers, homeless, abused women) for many years and their tales of endurance and survival have inspired the whole trilogy. There are two people close to me who have impacted on the story – both women for a variety of reasons have undervalued themselves even though they were wonderful, generous and talented.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Judith is one hell of a girl: headstrong, beautiful, flawed and loveable.Now it's my turn to tag people:
Deborah BattermanFiona Phillips Margaret Wacker Judith van PraagJudith Newton
Please visit their blogs. They will be publishing their answers to the questions in week 10 (between the 27th October and 3rd September)
Message for the tagged authors and interested others:
Rules of The Next Big Thing***Use this format for your post
***Answer the ten questions about your current WIP (Work In Progress)
***Tag five other writers/bloggers and add their links so we can hop over and meet them.Ten Interview Questions for The Next Big Thing:
What is the working title of your book?Where did the idea come from for the book?What genre does your book fall under?Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?Who or What inspired you to write this book?What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Include the link of who tagged you and this explanation for the people you have tagged.
Piece of advice from Zoe: Line up your five people in advance.
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