THE DRY PRINCESS

The Book

Excerpt

Trivia

TRIVIA

Patience
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​Usually I think about a book premise and then I start writing it the next day. There’s been two exceptions to this—books I felt like researching for first—and neither of them were ever finished.

I knew sometime in March 2019 that I’d have to write a sequel to Plumbess Seg. People were making requests, you see, and I’m vulnerable to such things. But instead of diving right into it, I tried to exercise something like restraint. I thought about the book, as dangerous as that’s proven in the past. I didn’t start writing until September, at which point I frantically knocked it out over the course of three weeks in a more usual (for me) manner.

And I hope it shows—the thought involved, that is. I read all of Grimm’s fairytales in support, even when they started feeling like the same story over and over again. Instead of just writing about the ocean, I drifted in one and let words come to me. I bought a brand new computer, since writing is half talent, half technology.

And then a horrible amount of waiting as covers get drawn, editors analyze, and narrators travel to Sri Lanka. If patience is finite, this might be my last reserve.