Ask the Author: Emily McIntire
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Emily McIntire
Hi Liv!
Burning Daylight tropes are:
- Star-Crossed (Modern day Romeo & Juliet with HEA)
- Rival Families
- He Falls First
- Secret Heir
- Slow Burn
- Corrupt Small Town
- Forbidden Love
Microtropes:
- Fighting as Foreplay
- She's only soft for him (no, she doesn't want to talk about it)
- "You're annoying, let's kiss."
- Legacy Drama
- I hate you (but not really)
- She calls him out. He calls her pretty.
- Born to hate you, dying to touch you.
My books always just kind of drop into my head and play like a movie for me. I can feel the emotions of the setting and the characters, and then they unfold for me as I write them down. I don't know where the stories come from other than they just appear and it's like I can't breathe or think about anything else until I get them on paper.
Rosebrook Falls (the town in this new series) dropped in my head and immediately felt like this moody, gritty, corrupt, wealthy town that was founded by these two powerful families who have generations of bad blood between them.
I wanted it to be a place where forbidden love runs rampant, almost like a curse, and then I thought, what better way to do an arc for a town that's known for it's forbidden love, than to do twists on tragic love stories, except this time, they'd get their happy ending.
I knew from the beginning that it would be an interconnected series as the characters are all very intertwined with one another. There are siblings and best friends, and betrayals, and twists and turns that will run throughout all of the books, and each character has been EXTREMELY loud in my head from the moment they showed up and started yapping.
I hope you love it when you read it!
Burning Daylight tropes are:
- Star-Crossed (Modern day Romeo & Juliet with HEA)
- Rival Families
- He Falls First
- Secret Heir
- Slow Burn
- Corrupt Small Town
- Forbidden Love
Microtropes:
- Fighting as Foreplay
- She's only soft for him (no, she doesn't want to talk about it)
- "You're annoying, let's kiss."
- Legacy Drama
- I hate you (but not really)
- She calls him out. He calls her pretty.
- Born to hate you, dying to touch you.
My books always just kind of drop into my head and play like a movie for me. I can feel the emotions of the setting and the characters, and then they unfold for me as I write them down. I don't know where the stories come from other than they just appear and it's like I can't breathe or think about anything else until I get them on paper.
Rosebrook Falls (the town in this new series) dropped in my head and immediately felt like this moody, gritty, corrupt, wealthy town that was founded by these two powerful families who have generations of bad blood between them.
I wanted it to be a place where forbidden love runs rampant, almost like a curse, and then I thought, what better way to do an arc for a town that's known for it's forbidden love, than to do twists on tragic love stories, except this time, they'd get their happy ending.
I knew from the beginning that it would be an interconnected series as the characters are all very intertwined with one another. There are siblings and best friends, and betrayals, and twists and turns that will run throughout all of the books, and each character has been EXTREMELY loud in my head from the moment they showed up and started yapping.
I hope you love it when you read it!
Emily McIntire
omg ily, thank you!
I've been a writer since I could hold a pencil, so that's always just been integral to who I am as a person.
Getting cancer though, that changes anyone who it touches, and that made me realize what type of human being I want to be. What type of mother. Wife. Sister. Daughter. Friend... and I guess author, too.
I hope that my books are whatever the person needs, whether that's an escape from reality or a reflection into their own. If you find something to love, or even something to hate in my stories—as long as they're making people feel something then I think I've done my job.
To me, that's what art is about: Making people feel.
As for who I want to be for my readers (as a person) I just want to always be showing my gratefulness that you all put me in the position I'm in, in the first place. So I try to pay it forward whenever and wherever I can. Because of you, I'm able to do what I love and I don't ever take that for granted.
I've been a writer since I could hold a pencil, so that's always just been integral to who I am as a person.
Getting cancer though, that changes anyone who it touches, and that made me realize what type of human being I want to be. What type of mother. Wife. Sister. Daughter. Friend... and I guess author, too.
I hope that my books are whatever the person needs, whether that's an escape from reality or a reflection into their own. If you find something to love, or even something to hate in my stories—as long as they're making people feel something then I think I've done my job.
To me, that's what art is about: Making people feel.
As for who I want to be for my readers (as a person) I just want to always be showing my gratefulness that you all put me in the position I'm in, in the first place. So I try to pay it forward whenever and wherever I can. Because of you, I'm able to do what I love and I don't ever take that for granted.
Emily McIntire
I don't heavily pre-plot my books, so believe it or not, I never knew what inspiration I'd do next until about 80% of the way through the book I was currently writing. Then, like clockwork, the next book and characters start dropping into my head every time. It's never let me down so far, so I've learned to trust it.
I always knew there was going to be six though, simply because that' show many books the series was signed for.
I always knew there was going to be six though, simply because that' show many books the series was signed for.
Emily McIntire
Hey Cassie :) I don't know that there are necessarily any must haves other than I always make them tall LOL Honestly, the characters just jump into my head and start yapping away, so I don't have too much control over what characteristics they have as I put them on paper.
As far as Romantasy goes, never say never! I write whatever story drops into my head. <3
As far as Romantasy goes, never say never! I write whatever story drops into my head. <3
Emily McIntire
Writing sprints always work well for me to push through writer's block. I set a timer for five minutes and then I write without stopping. I don't worry about whether the sentence structure makes sense, if there's usable storyline, if the grammar is there. I just write. Usually, I go back through and chop it up and draw something usable from it.
I also write at the same time every day no matter what because I've found that my muse gets trained to show up at that time if I consistently do it, and it makes writing flow easier. If I take long breaks, it's harder for me to break back into the creative space.
I also write at the same time every day no matter what because I've found that my muse gets trained to show up at that time if I consistently do it, and it makes writing flow easier. If I take long breaks, it's harder for me to break back into the creative space.
Emily McIntire
I do! I have a five and a half year old. She was actually a lot of the inspiration for the character Quin in Crossed when it comes to the ASD rep.
Emily McIntire
I've always been a writer for as long as I can remember. Even when I was a little kid, I was filling up notebooks full of poems and song lyrics :) I've never known to do anything else.
Emily McIntire
All of the direct source work that I pull from (beyond fun little vague nostalgia nods to the popular versions) are from the public domain original works!
Fun fact: The epigraph in each book is from whatever I draw the inspiration from. :)
Hooked- Peter Pan
Scarred - Hamlet
Wretched - Wizard of Oz
Twisted - Aladdin
Crossed - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hexed - The Little Mermaid
Fun fact: The epigraph in each book is from whatever I draw the inspiration from. :)
Hooked- Peter Pan
Scarred - Hamlet
Wretched - Wizard of Oz
Twisted - Aladdin
Crossed - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hexed - The Little Mermaid
Emily McIntire
There is only one audiobook for Wretched. The narrators are Vivian Bradford and Robert Hatchet. You may be looking at a foreign version of the audiobook??
That being said, the audiobook may have differences to the ebook/paperback because they were recorded off of the indie versions, and there were slight changes made to the books when re-published traditionally. The audiobooks were also updated, but for some reason Amazon likes to distribute the old versions still.
That being said, the audiobook may have differences to the ebook/paperback because they were recorded off of the indie versions, and there were slight changes made to the books when re-published traditionally. The audiobooks were also updated, but for some reason Amazon likes to distribute the old versions still.
Emily McIntire
Yes! I have lots of things coming your way :)
Emily McIntire
The only difference in international is the sizing, and they're smaller because that's the size the international distributor my publisher uses decided to print them. I have no control over it! International versions are 5x8 and all other versions are 5.5x8.5. Just make sure you check the print information before purchasing if you're looking for a specific sizing.
Emily McIntire
Yes! Hexed will be the last in the Never After series, but I have new characters and worlds screaming in my head to be introduced to you :)
Emily McIntire
The most important (and sometimes the hardest) part of being a writer is sitting down and actually writing.
You have plenty of time to publish your works, research the craft (and I'd also recommend researching business and marketing because esp, in this day and age, to be a published author is to be a brand and a business and you MUST know how to market if you want to sell your books).
Don't rush it! Writing is about letting your creativity flow and allowing your muse speak through you. I like to think of it as a muscle, practice every day so it gets stronger and easier to do, the same way that lifting weights gets easier the more you do it.
I also believe being a professional writer, or an artist of any type, means having a strong sense of self because art is extremely subjective and once it's out in the world, people will critique it, sometimes very harshly, and you have to know like you know like YOU KNOW, that you put out the art you were supposed to despite how other people may/may not engage with it.
Start following some of your favorite writers, their NL, watch how they go about doing things so you can learn, write a little every day, read books on formulating craft, join writer groups where you can connect with others and swap works to critique/enhance/improve.
Take some time to research self publishing vs. querying to become traditionally published and decide which route you'd like to take. They're both valid and you can always grow into doing both (like I do) but they're vastly different approaches.
And then just write, babyyyy!!! If I can do it, surely anyone can :)
You have plenty of time to publish your works, research the craft (and I'd also recommend researching business and marketing because esp, in this day and age, to be a published author is to be a brand and a business and you MUST know how to market if you want to sell your books).
Don't rush it! Writing is about letting your creativity flow and allowing your muse speak through you. I like to think of it as a muscle, practice every day so it gets stronger and easier to do, the same way that lifting weights gets easier the more you do it.
I also believe being a professional writer, or an artist of any type, means having a strong sense of self because art is extremely subjective and once it's out in the world, people will critique it, sometimes very harshly, and you have to know like you know like YOU KNOW, that you put out the art you were supposed to despite how other people may/may not engage with it.
Start following some of your favorite writers, their NL, watch how they go about doing things so you can learn, write a little every day, read books on formulating craft, join writer groups where you can connect with others and swap works to critique/enhance/improve.
Take some time to research self publishing vs. querying to become traditionally published and decide which route you'd like to take. They're both valid and you can always grow into doing both (like I do) but they're vastly different approaches.
And then just write, babyyyy!!! If I can do it, surely anyone can :)
Emily McIntire
The Little Mermaid and it's out November 5th!
You can preorder it now :) --> https://geni.us/NeverAfterBook6
You can preorder it now :) --> https://geni.us/NeverAfterBook6
Emily McIntire
The colors do play a part but the overall aesthetic of the cover matches the story that's inside more than anything else.
Each object on the cover portrays something important in the book.
The clock for Hooked represents his fear of clocks and specifically his uncle's shattered pocket watch, the crown for Scarred being broken in half because of the rebellion wanting to destroy the crown, the shattered mechanical heart for Wretched because Nick is the Tin Man who grows a heart AND has it broken by Evelina, the diamond for Twisted because of the diamond business and Julian's lust to own the company, the bell from the church towers in Crossed, so the sixth object will be something that's important to the inside of the story.
The colors for each cover DO correlate with the inspiration/story inside, but other than making sure the colors aren't repeated I don't have a specific coordination that plays for the order of the books.
Each object on the cover portrays something important in the book.
The clock for Hooked represents his fear of clocks and specifically his uncle's shattered pocket watch, the crown for Scarred being broken in half because of the rebellion wanting to destroy the crown, the shattered mechanical heart for Wretched because Nick is the Tin Man who grows a heart AND has it broken by Evelina, the diamond for Twisted because of the diamond business and Julian's lust to own the company, the bell from the church towers in Crossed, so the sixth object will be something that's important to the inside of the story.
The colors for each cover DO correlate with the inspiration/story inside, but other than making sure the colors aren't repeated I don't have a specific coordination that plays for the order of the books.
Emily McIntire
It's always a possibility! I write whatever story drops in my head, I never like to force any tropes or storylines because I feel like the story/interactions etc. would come across as forced.
I will say that as a reader I absolutely LOVE historical romance, so I'd love to write more :)
I will say that as a reader I absolutely LOVE historical romance, so I'd love to write more :)
Emily McIntire
Never say never!
Emily McIntire
The series has been signed for six books, so for now it's definitely ending after this next one!! Never say never, I suppose. :)
I already have new characters screaming in my head for you though, so don't worry! I have plenty more coming for you after book 6 in Never After!
I already have new characters screaming in my head for you though, so don't worry! I have plenty more coming for you after book 6 in Never After!
Emily McIntire
I'll be honest, I'm not 100% sure how I come up with the stories themselves. The next one always shows up like clockwork when I'm about to finish whatever book I'm working on, so I've learned to trust the process.
It honestly feels like something plops them in my head and the character(s) scream and knock around until I put them on paper. I don't pre-plot my books, the scenes play like a movie while I write them, as though the characters are showing me what to put down. It's the best way I can describe it!
Yes! I always pull the inspiration from the original source work that's in the public domain, so I always read/research those before and while writing the book themselves.
My goal is always to nod to the inspiration, but to make the story itself stand alone so people who haven't ever heard of/or may not enjoy the original can still enjoy the book. :)
It honestly feels like something plops them in my head and the character(s) scream and knock around until I put them on paper. I don't pre-plot my books, the scenes play like a movie while I write them, as though the characters are showing me what to put down. It's the best way I can describe it!
Yes! I always pull the inspiration from the original source work that's in the public domain, so I always read/research those before and while writing the book themselves.
My goal is always to nod to the inspiration, but to make the story itself stand alone so people who haven't ever heard of/or may not enjoy the original can still enjoy the book. :)
Emily McIntire
You can find all my playlists/moodboards etc. on my website EmilyMcIntire.com under "extras" in the menu!
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