When I wrote the first book, I didn’t have an agent, I didn’t even have a book deal, it was just me, and the page. We were seeing the reaction, and it was so amazing seeing readers and librarians and students and everyone connect but suddenly, there’s just all these voices and opinions everywhere. I think the most important thing I have had to learn about myself is silencing the outside voices, being able to separate what everyone else wants the book to be, from what I need the book to be.Ī big part of the struggle was when I was working on Psalms and Wraiths was coming out.
What is the most important thing you’ve learned during this process, not only about the publishing industry, but also about yourself? So, getting to the other side of that, it has just been an immense relief, regardless of what happens with the book. But Psalm was done almost entirely during the pandemic and that was just a huge challenge, just trying to get into that creative headspace when it felt like the world was crumbling. Wraiths was off to copy and in print before the pandemic started, even though it came out during the pandemic, but I had stopped working on it before the pandemic started. Is it going to answer every question they wanted answered? So, it’s definitely a mix of all three of those things, but on just the pure writing level, I’m feeling a lot of relief because as a lot of authors will tell you, writing in the pandemic has not been great. The readers connected so deeply with the first book I continually ask myself if it’s a worthy follow up. It’s something we don’t really know until the book comes out. There’s still always that moment where the advanced copies are out there and we’re getting early reviews, early reads and things, so we’re starting to get a sense of how the audience reaction is.
It’s such a weird feeling of both like relief and pride, and I’m at the stage where I’m still a little bit nervous because as we’re talking, the book is still not officially out yet. Now that we’ve reached the end of the road for this story, the one that got everything started for you, looking back, how are you feeling now that the duology is finished? Hi Roseanne, thanks so much for talking to We Need Diverse Books ! Brown to the WNDB blog to discuss A Psalm of Storms and Silence, out Novem.
Today we’re pleased to welcome Roseanne A.
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