I knew how the book was going to start and end. Do you outline your novel before you start writing or do you prefer to just begin and see where your ideas take you?įor this one, I had the basic concept and world building in notes, just to make those ideas tangible.

It won a school prize, and they had it professionally bound for me. The first creative writing I did was an illustrated book in 4 th grade. It was sort of on my bucket list, because I never had a idea for one until the summer of 2014. By the time I was a senior in college, I knew I wanted to write a book. 10 years later, I earned an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I went to San Diego State University where I was a dance major. I live in the city with my husband and our two boys, age 10 and 2.

This month’s Author Spotlight features Quoleena Sbrocca whose novel Rayne: Luminescence (Rayne Trilogy #1) is released today!ġ. Eric worries that Adam is only using him whilst Adam, recognising that his feelings for Eric are genuine, fears that they’ll get in the way of his plans for revenge.Ĭontinue reading “Featured Author: Perfect World series” → Featured Author There is also the developing relationship between protagonist Eric Rawlins and Book 1 antagonist Adam Larimore. There are warnings over the manipulation of human genetics, the impact of climate change and what isolation can do to a nation. There are many themes running throughout the series. To begin with it was meant to be a standalone novel, but as I began to write it started to take on a life of its own and became the Perfect World series. My preferred method of writing is to have a couple of projects on the go at once, this helps prevent me from getting writer’s block and if I do get it I can jump from one to another rather than not get any writing done at all. Perfect World began life as a side project to my novel Demon’s Blood which I was writing at the time.

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari