Tag: world building
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Edits, Commence!
It’s been a looong time coming, but I’m finally working on a first round of edits for the next novel, Starling’s Weave. This one is tentatively slated to drop in the springtime with Entangled Teen. This will be my fifth novel published with this scrappy and awesome American publisher. The manuscript was finished and in…
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On Dystopias
For me, a good dystopian world follows the logic of this Leonard Cohen lyric: There’s a crack / there’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in By their very definition, dystopian worlds are deeply flawed, dangerous, extreme and upsetting. One thinks of the lottery system in Hunger Games, or the siloed…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRUE STORM!
Today marks a milestone: today, True Storm, third and final instalment in the True Born Trilogy, officially hits stores. Yeehaaawww! So you might be wondering: how does it feel to end a trilogy? I feel like a mother whose last baby has just gone off to college, leaving me wondering what to do with my…
L. E. Sterling 