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An interview with
R.C. Lewis
The sci-fi part was natural because that's the kind of geek I am and what I gravitate toward. (See what I did there?) The fairy tale part is something I kind of stumbled on with STITCHING SNOW. A line in a Florence + The Machine song triggered an image in my head and boom—story idea. With SPINNING STARLIGHT, it was more deliberate because we wanted to follow up with something in the same vein, so I went looking through fairy tale collections for something I felt I could put a sci-fi spin on.
In SPINNING STARLIGHT, my main character Liddi can't speak for a large portion of the book, so the trickiest thing for me was finding ways to make sure she was active and expressing herself as much as possible when put in a fairly helpless situation.
One I really liked when looking for a tale to use for my second book was "The Rose Elf" with the idea of an unseen observer interfering.
Which fairytale mode of transportation would you want to try out? (eg. Cinderella's pumpkin coach, seven league boots, ship, flying carpet, etc...)
THIS OR THAT
Hero or villain?
Antihero!^_^
Prince or knight?
Knight
Befriend the birds or the mice?
Birds
Baba Yaga or a Djinn?
Djinn
Invisibility cloak or golden ball?
Invisibility cloak
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O F F I C I A L I N F O:
Title: STITCHING SNOW
Author: R.C. Lewis
Release Date: Oct. 14, 2014
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
SUMMARY:
Princess Snow is missing.
Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.
Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.
When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane’s arrival was far from accidental, and she’s pulled into the heart of a war she’s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy’s future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.
Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.
Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.
When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane’s arrival was far from accidental, and she’s pulled into the heart of a war she’s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy’s future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.
~*~
O F F I C I A L I N F O:
Title: SPINNING STARLIGHT
Author: R.C. Lewis
Release Date: Oct. 6, 2015
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
SUMMARY:
Sixteen-year-old
heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as
the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's
hard to escape it. So when a group of men show up at her house
uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. That is, until
shots are fired.
Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.
Desperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back?
Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to STITCHING SNOW.
Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.
Desperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back?
Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to STITCHING SNOW.
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