Archived- Promotional Q&A's: Q&A with Trisha Wolfe - CLOSED

[Nicki]

Hi Trisha. I recently finished Astarte's Wrath (my review) and loved it. As with Destiny's Fire, the story moves at such a great pace with information revealed at just the right moment to keep me both vested and at the edge of my seat. So I'm very curious as to how you go about weaving your plots - how much of it do you plan out before you sit down to write?

[Trisha]

Hey, Nicki! Just have to say first off, love you, girl, and having such an amazingly talented author read & review my work is amazing <3 Still can't get over how much I adored Divine Temptation! Seriously brilliant.

I really do "try" to plot lol But I'm terrible at it. I tried it with my first two books, and always strayed from the outline...so I've learned to first get to know my characters, and then I let them tell me the story. With AW there was about a year of research I had to put in before I could even think about writing it, it was my first Historical, but once I filled two journals, I sat down and Star took over :) And with DF, Steampunk is just fun lol I got to pretty much create the whole world, so that was all letting the characters run with it.

Thank you for such a great question!! Hugs!

[Hope]

Trisha, I'm a new fan and look forward to reading your upcoming works. Thank you for taking time to participate in this Q&A.

[Trisha]

Hope wrote: "Trisha, I'm a new fan and look forward to reading your upcoming works. Thank you for taking time to participate in this Q&A."

Thank you so much, Hope! It's nice to "meet" you, and I hope you enjoy them. :D

[Brianna]

I love Astarte's Wrath and Of Silver and Beasts. Where did you get the ideas for them?

[Trisha]

Brianna wrote: "I love Astarte's Wrath and Of Silver and Beasts. Where did you get the ideas for them?"

Hi, Brianna! Thank you! So glad that you enjoyed them, girl :)

Let's see...with Astarte's Wrath, I had already created the Steampunk world in Destiny's Fire, and had done the research for the Egyptian background. But I wasn't able to fit all of my research into DF. i really wanted to show that side of it. The characters came after DF, and I fell in love with them and their story. It's probably my favorite book I've written so far :)

For Of Silver and Beasts, really, I just starting writing it one day, and it took off. I didn't have a clear idea for where I wanted it to go, other than I wanted to tell a story about a girl with mercury in her blood. My characters always create the stories :) Afterward, I had to go back and do a lot of world building and editing to mold the story around Kal.

[Brianna]

That's so great. :) I'd say you did a good job, especially with Astarte's Wrath. As a history lover, I thought how you incorporated Egyptian background into it was awesome. :)

[Trisha]

Brianna wrote: "That's so great. :) I'd say you did a good job, especially with Astarte's Wrath. As a history lover, I thought how you incorporated Egyptian background into it was awesome. :)"

Aww thanks you, Brianna! *hugs* I'm a huge history buff, too :D And really, I was a bit scared to write AW lol I was afraid I wouldn't do that amazing setting and time period justice. But I researched for a long time, and learned so much in the process. I have so much respect for the Egyptian culture, now, even more so than before. I'm so happy that you really enjoyed it <3

[Trisha]

Faith wrote: "Trisha, bloggers love you! How important is it to you to keep in contact with them?"

Hey, Faith!! Love ya, girl! I love bloggers! Having been a blogger first and working with them for years at YA Bound, I think it's very important to keep in touch with them, and also readers. I try to always respond to email, Tweets, etc. And if I'm slammed, I still try to get back to them in a timely manner :)

Thanks for the great question! <3