Ask the Author: K.E. Lanning
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K.E. Lanning
Hah!! Let's just say it involves a murder or two, and maybe on your favorite bookstore shelf in some future time!
K.E. Lanning
I land an agent and he/she sells The Melt Trilogy to a top film producer. The Writer's Guild of America's battle with the agencies is never settled and the project remains forever in limbo...
K.E. Lanning
Would I enjoy being plopped down in the midst of a Shakespeare tragedy--no. The great writing of the world features fictional worlds full of angst and flawed characters. There's a saying that literary fiction illuminates how life sucks. One might argue that our present day world is filled with flawed characters and plenty of angst, but the question was "fictional" world....
K.E. Lanning
The original idea stemmed from a desire to escape from my corporate life at that time. I had to envision a location where a character could escape--I had an epiphany that if global warming melted the ice caps and Antarctica was laid bare, it would be a perfect setting for a novel, and one which had never been used before. But that was just the beginning and a story must have character development and plot, so off I went, creating stories around that event!
K.E. Lanning
I have always had the itch for creating, either through scientific or art venues. Ultimately, for me, writing seems to be the scratch that assuaged that creative urge.
K.E. Lanning
I'm writing the next novel in the trilogy, The Sting of the Bee, which is about ten years later than A Spider Sat Beside Her. The UN opens the continent of Antarctica to homesteaders via an Oklahoma-style land rush, and continues with the protagonist, Lowry Walker, but introduces another main character, John Barrous. As a jumping off point, I used the nefarious history of the opening of the West with its political and social consequences. I am planning to release this novel next spring.
K.E. Lanning
Read, Write, Repeat.
K.E. Lanning
Writing usually isn't a choice--it is a lovely, but consuming desire, as the author struggles to tell an engaging story with merit.
K.E. Lanning
Go for a walk or do my exercises with no external input; i.e., no TV.
K.E. Lanning
I'm currently reading The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell; gorgeously written novel! Also, the Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, and I'm sure a few more will get on the list!
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