

What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating Silla? There’s kissing and body-snatching and sacrifice. It’s about two teens living in rural Missouri who meet in a cemetery and discover a mutual family history with dark American folk magic. In your book, Blood Magic can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about the novel?

My advice is: write write write and if you aren’t having fun on the internet GET OFF. What are some of the common challenges that new and experienced authors face and what advice do you have for over-coming them?Ī lot of new and experienced writers get bogged down with sales numbers and thinking they have to connect with readers online even before the book comes out. You learn the rules, and then carefully, purposefully destroy them.

I can’t think of a single character rule. What are “Character Rules” and give us some examples. Yes, of course, but it won’t make people fall in love with your story and read it over and over again forever. Is there such a thing as a formula for storytelling? The unlikeliest of allies, they’ll have to stop fighting each other long enough to learn to fight together in order to survive the fiery prophecies and ancient blood magic threatening to devastate their entire world.What was the greatest thing you learned at school? Together, Darling and Talon must navigate the treacherous waters of House politics, caught up in the complicated game the High Prince Regent is playing against everyone. Talon resists, until he’s ambushed by a fierce girl who looks exactly like the one his brother has painted obsessively, repeatedly, for years, and Talon knows she’s the key to everything. But lately his brother’s erratic rule threatens to undo a hundred years of House Dragon’s hard work, and factions are turning to Talon to unseat him.

Talon Goldhoard has always been a dutiful War Prince for House Dragon, bravely leading the elite troops of his brother, the High Prince Regent. So when her adoptive Kraken father is captured in battle, Darling vows to save him-even if that means killing each and every last member of House Dragon. From New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton comes the first book in a ferocious YA fantasy duology featuring ancient magic, warring factions, and a romance between the two people in the world with the most cause to hate one another.ĭarling Seabreak cannot remember anything before the murder of her family at the hands of House Dragon, but she knows she owes her life to both the power of her Chaos Boon and House Kraken for liberating her from the sewers where she spent her childhood.
