And here’s another bundle author! This time from the U.S. of A. and I even had the pleasure to meet her – although both being introverts, our conversations weren’t worth listening to… but our books are worth reading, I promise! 🙂 So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Sabrina Chase!
Where do you live and write from?
Seattle.
Why do you write?
My favorite writers don’t write as fast as I read–and I like telling stories. Then I discovered it was even more fun having readers!
When did you start writing?
I think I was around 13, probably a school assignment. That poor teacher probably wondered where the spaceships came from. I make no apologies for my love of spaceships.
What genre(s) do you write?
Science fiction and fantasy of all flavors (steampunkish alt-history, high fantasy, YA adventure)
What is your goal as a writer and what are you doing to achieve it?
My goal is writing that sucks the reader in, transparent and immersive. Readers should not even be aware of the page or the writing, just the story. I also want my books to be the kind that people read again and again for pleasure, like old friends.
What is the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever been given?
Use all five senses to really draw the reader into the world you’re creating. Never forget you are competing for the reader’s beer money (i.e. deliver entertainment and value).
Outliner or improviser? Fast or slow writer?
Improviser, or pantser. I vary on speed, never as fast as I want to be… there are too many books I want to write.
Tell us more about your book in the bundle.
Firehearted was the very first book I wrote. It started off just as a short story, but one of my beta readers got quite agitated and insisted there was more and I had to write it. I used things I learned from my military history hobby, filing off the serial numbers of some historical battles and using them in the story. At heart it is about how different cultures have different descriptions of honor, but they all have the concept of honor–and understanding the core allows for mutual respect. Also, pet tigers are cool!
Tell us about your latest book.
One Blood is the continuation of the story started in The Scent of Metal, which was my revenge-for-Pluto book. Pluto is really an abandoned alien ship! And a computer geek explorer wakes up the AI by accident. Find it on Amazon.
Any other projects in the pipeline?
Soul Code , the sequel to One Blood with more evil aliens and rescued AI ships!
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