![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why is writing a book always joy and misery? Would that I simply knocked three times on the keyboard and the angels poured a perfect story onto my screen…on second thought, that might be creepy, besides not very satisfying, like heating up a freeze dried meal in the microwave. It was delightful for me to draw a character in such a narrow world and watch her stretch and grow. I wanted to tell a story from a small place. But princess academy was born from a slightly different imagination. My imagination has a penchant for vastness -I love having journeys, a need for a map at the front of the book, and I tend to have at least two separate countries feature prominently in the story. However, Miri felt so tied to her place that the book came to be about both. Don’t get me wrong-I believe every story worth its salt is about a character and the setting of every story is as essential as bones to a body. But number 3, princess academy, is rooted in a place as much as a person. My first two books, the goose girl and enna burning, as you can probably tell from the titles, are truly about the main character, as are books 4 & 5 (which are currently outlined and aching to get on the page). ![]()
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