Madyson Loya

Madyson Loya asked Colleen Houck:

Hello, Colleen. When creating a story, particularly a new one, how do you prepare for it? The characters? The story plot? The research? Do you perhaps use an outline format? What do you find helpful when preparing yourself for a new project?

Colleen Houck Whew. It's hard to say. I'm not as much of a plotter as I should be. I read a lot and jot down a lot of notes and then I just go and figure it out as I go along. That style would drive a lot of authors crazy and might not work for you at all. You might want to take a class or two and see how other people do it and then figure out your own style. My agent tried to guide my last book and it caused more problems than it helped. Every person needs to find their own way to come up with stories.

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Jen

Jen asked Colleen Houck:

How do you come up with the ideas for your books? 'Cause I"ve gotta say, they all blow my mind! Where do Ren, Kishan, and Kelsey's characters come from? And all the new characters in Reawakened!

McKenna Beech

McKenna Beech asked Colleen Houck:

A question that has been bugging me for a while is that Damon is orange and black and Kishan is just black. Kishan gets turned into Damon so why is he not the same color? Will we ever find out? Did you mean to put that in there?

Mallori

Mallori asked Colleen Houck:

Dear Colleen, I love "tiger's curse" series and since i got "reawakened" for Christmas (and loved it as well!) I wanted to know; even though the two worlds don't have very much in common have you ever considered writing a crossover novella between the two? (also are there any hidden parallels that we don't know about between the series'?)

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