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Work In Progress Tag

Welcome travelers,

Authortube has a tag for their Works In Progress, originally created by Jessi Elliott.
I tend to work in multiple projects at once so I thought I'd make one project post here and a second a little later on.

Now, on with the tag!

  1. What is the working title of your book? Shadow's Mist
  2. Where did the idea come from? It came from an RPG that I found when I was in high school.
  3. What genre is your work in progress? It's a fantasy, it started as a YA fantasy but as I work on it, I'm considering aging up the characters a bit.
  4. Choose the actors in your movie rendition: Honestly, I'd prefer to have people who were lesser known or just starting out. If I had to choose, Anya Taylor-Joy or Naomi Scott are high on my list.
  5. One sentence synopsis of your book: Jun's first mission into the dragon lands goes wrong when the sorceress Karyan attempts to use her rare powers to capture the creature that lurks in the mist but both realize some powers are greater and more dangerous when the creature breaks free and begins hunting them instead.
  6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? I'd like to get it traditionally published to start with.
  7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? It took about three months to finish the first draft only because I wasn't happy with the direction it was going and kept restarting. Once I knew how I wanted to write it, it was written (by hand) in less than a month.
  8. What other books would you compare the story to? Unfortunately, it's a lot like most YA fantasies. I'm trying to fix that in my second draft. It's a little bit Eragon, a little bit Children of Blood and Bone, a little bit Eon. 
  9. Who or what inspired you to write the book? I enjoyed reading through the RPG books that the idea is based on but I wrote most of it with my youngest sister in mind.
  10. What else about your book might pique your reader's interest? magic, monsters, dragons, black and white to gray, and the difference between healers and witches in society.

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