I have always been the kind of person who lives in her head. At school I was the type who doodled in her notebook, stared out the window, occasionally fell asleep (usually only in aviation class), and got bad grades. Aimless until graduation, I was advised by my high school counselor to consider beauty school, but that path didn’t call to me. No one really knew what I was going to do with my life.
Of course, I knew. I’d always wanted to be a writer. I was going to do THAT. I was going to take all those worlds I had in my head and give them to other people to enjoy. Which, eventually, is exactly what I did.
Academically, I pulled it together after high school and went on to finish college and eventually got into graduate school. I was sensibly aiming for a career that would put food on my table if the writing thing didn’t pan out. But the writing thing did pan out and here I am living my dream, a thing I’m thankful for every day. Hey! Maybe all those bad grades through school weren’t such a bad thing after all.
These days people pay me to daydream. The world I’m daydreaming about today, right now, for this new series I’m doing for Berkley, is probably one of the more complex worlds I’ve ever written.
Imagine the fae. Imagine the fae are real. Imagine there is another race called the Phaendir, who have been known through the ages as druids. Imagine, for reasons they perceive to be righteous and noble, the Phaendir believe the fae are dangerous and should be kept away from the rest of the world.
Imagine a city called Piefferburg that takes up a large portion of the states we know as North Carolina and Virginia. This is where the fae have been imprisoned since the time America became America. Within its borders is every type of fae known to the world–the Seelie and Unseelie Courts that are filled with the shining and the nightmarish alike, goblins, hobgoblins, the Birch Ladies, waterhorses, kelpies…the list goes on.
Now imagine it is the present day and they all want out.
Oooh you have my attention…. so far I am liking this daydream! 😀
by Colleen March 31st, 2009 at 10:36 amOooh you have my attention…. so far I am liking this daydream! 😀
by Colleen March 31st, 2009 at 10:36 amHoly crap! I want!!!
by Natasha A. March 31st, 2009 at 10:38 amI love fae…..
Imagine the gleam in my eye as I get in line at my local indie bookstore, a copy of the first in the series in hand…
by Susan Helene Gottfried March 31st, 2009 at 10:42 amThat book sounds GREAT! I can’t wait to read!
Tami
by Tami March 31st, 2009 at 11:33 amSounds very interesting!
by Estella March 31st, 2009 at 2:19 pmI was one to pay attention in school, for the most part, but I did my fair share of daydreaming. I even got in trouble in my AP Calc class for that and reading because I was bored.
Your description of the new world you’re daydreaming up sounds fantastic. You have definitely piqued my interest.
by Karin March 31st, 2009 at 5:24 pmSounds awesome. It sounds familiar to a series by Karen Marie Moning, The Fever series. Amazing books.
If it’s anything like your witch series, it’ll be amazing. Love your books!
by Jessica Kennedy March 31st, 2009 at 6:40 pmThat is one of the best day dreams I have ever read.
It sounds stunning Anya 🙂
by Jess April 1st, 2009 at 6:20 am