Mel
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Alexis Hall:
How did you come up with Prosperity? What was your inspiration? And what were your first ideas/characters/things for it? Any news on the more-books-in-the-Prosperityverse front?
Alexis Hall
Hi Mel, I'm so so sorry I missed this. I stopped getting notifications and am rubbish :(
Prosperity came about because I randomly saw an open call for "queer frontier fiction" on RP's site. And I really love westerns so I wanted to write what would essentially be a queer western - except there's the whole genocide thing which is, y'know, non-ideal to put it mildly. So I started thinking about ways to get the Western feel without the, uh, genocide. And so I sort of ended up at steampunk western with lawless frontier towns in the sky. It makes sense. Maybe ;)
I would love to write some more Prosperityverse stories but I don't have plans to currently. Watch this space ;) Actually I do have a half-written short called Black Jack's Boy. And you can probably guess what that's about ;)
Prosperity came about because I randomly saw an open call for "queer frontier fiction" on RP's site. And I really love westerns so I wanted to write what would essentially be a queer western - except there's the whole genocide thing which is, y'know, non-ideal to put it mildly. So I started thinking about ways to get the Western feel without the, uh, genocide. And so I sort of ended up at steampunk western with lawless frontier towns in the sky. It makes sense. Maybe ;)
I would love to write some more Prosperityverse stories but I don't have plans to currently. Watch this space ;) Actually I do have a half-written short called Black Jack's Boy. And you can probably guess what that's about ;)
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