Firefly asked Kendare Blake:

Why did you decide to write the Three Dark Crowns series in present tense rather than past tense?

Kendare Blake I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I like present tense. I find it adds a sense of immediacy to my writing, as if I’m not so much recounting a tale that’s already happened but being carried along with it as it goes. So with Three Dark Crowns it served to remove me a bit, from teller to recorder. Also, I particularly love present tense when writing in first person. It makes me trust my narrator more. They have no time to color things in their favor. In fact, the only time I’ll use past tense with a first person narrator is when I want to impart that essence of unreliability, the creeping feeling that we aren’t getting the truth but only their recollection of it.

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I've just started Three Dark Crowns and I LOVE it. I was wondering, as an author, if you had any advice for young writers hoping to get published? Especially surrounding query letters?

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Cassie 'The Thinker Go Go Go Go' Mis. Roben Goodfellow'\Isabelle Lightwood asked Kendare Blake:

I saw that you were going to possibly be speaking at the Bookcon in New York come June. What are your thoughts on that? What should people expect or not expect from it? Also will you be hanging around for a bit afterwords so that readers can ask you to sign stuff? Or no?

Evelyn asked Kendare Blake:

Hi again, after reading about the prospect of a movie my heart started to contract in fear. All I could think was how they DESTROYED Percy Jackson, so my question is... will you be involved in the film to over see that it is Anna-tastic?

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Why did you decide to write the Three Dark Crowns series in present tense rather than past tense?

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I've just started Three Dark Crowns and I LOVE it. I was wondering, as an author, if you had any advice for young writers hoping to get published? Especially surrounding query letters?

I saw that you were going to possibly be speaking at the Bookcon in New York come June. What are your thoughts on that? What should people expect or not expect from it? Also will you be hanging around for a bit afterwords so that readers can ask you to sign stuff? Or no?

Hi again, after reading about the prospect of a movie my heart started to contract in fear. All I could think was how they DESTROYED Percy Jackson, so my question is... will you be involved in the film to over see that it is Anna-tastic?

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