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Hi - I'm Sally Green. I'm the author of the real-world/ fantasy Half Bad Trilogy, which is made up of Half Bad, Half Wild and Half Lost. Most people read them in that order but there's always a few who don't. Many people who read them are teenagers but there's a lot who aren't.

I'm currently working on a new series called The Smoke Thieves, which is due to be published in spring 2018 and is definitely fantasy (there will be a map).

I said I'd never write another trilogy after Half Bad but it seems I lied.

I live in a village in north-west England.

There's some stuff about the Half Bad trilogy at www.halfbadworld.com.

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Hello! I was just wondering, have you got any plans for books after Half Lost? I realise this sounds really impatient of me, but I'm really excited. Also I want to say that the Half Bad books have been great, it seemed that throughout it I was thinking 'Damn... I wish I thought of that.' But anyway, I can't wait for Half Lost, and good luck!! Michael.

Sally Green Hi Michael,

I'm currently editing HALF LOST. Then I'm hoping to write a short story related to the HALF BAD world, but will have to see how that goes. …moreHi Michael,

I'm currently editing HALF LOST. Then I'm hoping to write a short story related to the HALF BAD world, but will have to see how that goes. In September I'll start on a completely new novel. I've got a few different ideas but haven't decided which one to follow yet - I think it will depend on the mood I'm in. That book will probably be a stand alone, just because I want a break from trilogy/series writing.

Great to hear you're looking forward to HALF LOST. I'm really excited about it.

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When you started Half Bad, did you think at that time that it would be a trilogy? I always wonder how much of writing in trilogies is a product of publishers and marketing departments these days. It isn't that I mind having more books to read (not at all). Or is the trilogy something that you, as a writer, had in mind as you were writing. If that is the case, why?

Sally Green Hi Justine, Good question.

When I came up with the idea for HALF BAD I did think it would be a trilogy from the start. This was well before I had an ag…moreHi Justine, Good question.

When I came up with the idea for HALF BAD I did think it would be a trilogy from the start. This was well before I had an agent or a publishing deal. I can't really comment on what publishers or marketing departments want except that, as far as I can see, they want great books whether as stand-alones, trilogies or a series of seven-plus books.

My initial idea for HALF BAD was to show how perceptions can be wrong: I wanted to write the whole of the first book from the point of view of White Witches, showing them to be the goodies; then the second book would completely reverse that, and Nathan would go over to the Black Witch side and we'd see things from their point of view; and then the third book would somehow bring it all together and we'd see that neither side was all good or bad.
This sounded fine to me in theory but as I wrote HALF BAD I found that I couldn't keep to that initial idea and wanted to mix the perceptions up in the first book. But I still had the idea of the story arc for the three books (the arc of what would happen to Nathan) and I've stayed with that.

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	Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 56,733 ratings — published 2014 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 25,163 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 18,637 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smoke Thieves (The Smoke Thieves, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 9,792 ratings — published 2018 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demon World (The Smoke Thieves, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 3,855 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half Lies (The Half Bad Trilogy, #0.5) 3.79 avg rating — 3,381 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Kingdoms (The Smoke Thieves, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 2,536 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half Truths (The Half Bad Trilogy, #0.6) 3.71 avg rating — 2,328 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una vida oculta (Una vida oculta, #1-3) 4.57 avg rating — 108 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdoms of Smoke – Die Verschwörung von Brigant (Die Kingdoms-of-Smoke-Trilogie 1) (German Edition) by Sally Green (Goodreads Author), Alexandra Ernst (translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Honours

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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“The trick is not to mind.
Not to mind about it hurting.
Not to mind about anything.”
― Sally Green, Half Bad

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“The point of being good is doing it when it’s tough, not when it’s easy.”
― Sally Green, Half Wild

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“You've been away a long time. Were you lost?

I was wounded, not lost.”
― Sally Green, Half Lost

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

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Half Bad by Sally Green

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

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The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing, #1) by Ashley Elston

The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

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You Wish by Mandy Hubbard

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Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

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Sally’s Quotes

“Ruth once told me when I went to visit her at HMP Highpoint that it is surprising how much of what you imagine to be your innate sense of self actually comes from things that aren't one's self at all: people's reactions to the blouse you wear, the respectfulness of your family, the attentiveness of your friends, their approval of the pictures in your living room, the neatness of your lawn, the way people whisper your name. It is these exhibitions of yourself, as reflected in the people whom you meet, which give you comfort and your identity. Take them away, be put in a tiny room, and called by a number, and you begin to vanish.”
― Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

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“I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.”
― Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

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