Hello! It’s been a
while since my last post, this due the giveaway I was organizing, I didn’t want
that entry to get lost so more people could see it and participate.
Last
Saturday, September 23, I attended the last signing of Marie Lu for the Warcross tour, for this one she was
going to chat with author Kiersten White.
Warcross Summary
For the millions who
log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession
started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to
escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends
meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players
who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive
one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika
takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross
Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an
overnight sensation.
Convinced she’s going
to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s
creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible
offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to
uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time
to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and
fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a
sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.
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| Marie Lu. |
I arrived kind of late, the event had
just started and I had to pick up the book I had preordered online to get a
ticket for the signing line. The
whole event was a chat between both authors, which have a super nice chemistry
making everything fun and interesting.
Marie
Lu talked mainly about her new book, Warcross.
She mentioned that she wanted to write something lighter because the books she
had been working on were dark (the Young Elites),
and so she wrote Warcross for
herself. She decided to challenge herself writing a duology instead of a
trilogy, that way she could get rid of the middle book that’s always hard to
write, but she didn’t think the structure would change that much. She mentioned
that writing a duology turned out to be harder because she has to combine two
books into one.
Lu
also mentioned that right now Emika, Warcross
main character, has become her favorite because she put so much of her own
personality into Emika, so she identifies with her a lot. And finally she said
that she would like to see Warcross
adapted as an anime, she is currently watching Sword Art Online, an anime with a similar story about immersion
videogames.
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| Kiersten White |
On
Kiersten White’s side, she said that of the And
I Darken books, she definitely don’t identify with Lada, and she actually
dislikes her main characters, she likes the secondary characters because they
don’t require as much development and only appear to say something clever and
disappear again. She said she identifies with Radu the most.
A
topic that took major importance was the novels they are writing about
characters they didn’t create. For Marie Lu is Bruce Wayne. DC is making a
series of young adult novels of superheroes during their teenage years, being
those Wonder Woman Warbringer by Leigh
Bardugo (already out), Superman by Matt de la Peña, Cat Woman by Sarah J. Mass,
and Batman by Marie Lu. Lu said that writing about a character is not hers is
really hard, there are a lot of expectations on her from the batman fans, she
loves batman and feels honored to write about Bruce Wayne during his teenage
years because there is a big gap between the moment Bruce loses his parents and
when he became Batman. She also said that DC wasn’t too specific about restrictions;
they just told her that it must be a story set when Bruce was around 18, and
that’s it. The book comes out in January 2018.
On
Kiersten’s side, she is working on a Buffy
the Vampire Slayer novel, and feels a lot of pressure because there are a
lot of hardcore fans who grew up with that series, just like her. Right now she
is still working on that book, but didn’t specify if it would be a standalone
or a series, but
what’s sure is that it will take into account the graphic
novels and it will contain a character she created, a new slayer. She mentioned
that she would love to write a novel about Jessica Jones and would like to be
offered to write about Star Wars, but wouldn’t do it, she just want to be
offered to do so.
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| My Warcross Copy |
After
this chat it was time for only two questions, I don’t remember the first one,
but the second one was about if there is a school to take creative writing
classes as a career. Both authors said that even thou there are good schools
with creative writing as a career, they recommend to study something different
and take writing courses, but writing skill comes with practice.
I
had so much fun in the event, it was crowded but still both authors took their
time to chat a bit with every reader, I was so happy that Kiersten White
remembered me from the Now I Rise
launch party and had a pleasant and encouraging chat with her. The next event I
plan to attend is a Maggie Stifvater signing.
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