Rose Evermore has lived
in Ar Cena her entire life. Despite this, she still feels like an
outsider, like a shoe that doesn’t quite fit. Halfway through her
eighteenth year, she begins to notice changes around her, such as the
fact that she has a stalker who can hold fire in his bare hands, or the
dreams that she can turn into reality.
After a series of mishaps, Rose finds herself in an alternate realm, brought there to hone the magical power she was born with. Even here, though, Rose feels set apart. The Academy Masters treat her differently than the others. Her assigned soul mate avoids her when he should be working with her. Despite all this, Rose begins to grow into something no one could’ve seen coming; a hero.
With her, nothing is as it should be, and she decides to find out why. Soon she discovers that not everything about this new world is what it seems.
Least of all her.
After a series of mishaps, Rose finds herself in an alternate realm, brought there to hone the magical power she was born with. Even here, though, Rose feels set apart. The Academy Masters treat her differently than the others. Her assigned soul mate avoids her when he should be working with her. Despite all this, Rose begins to grow into something no one could’ve seen coming; a hero.
With her, nothing is as it should be, and she decides to find out why. Soon she discovers that not everything about this new world is what it seems.
Least of all her.
Soul Fire began to build itself in my head shortly
after I turned sixteen. A year later I couldn’t ignore it anymore, and
started writing it out in full. Instead of doing homework in Year
Twelve, I would sit on my laptop for hours, writing a story that was
just for me and I never intended anyone else to see it. It took me about
nine months, but in October 2009, the first 50,000 word draft was
completed.
I buried it for two years as I kind of gave up on my dream for a while. I
was working full time and I just couldn’t see that dream ever becoming a
reality so I let it go for a bit.
About a year later, I posted the
first chapter of the Soul Fire draft to a website called Goodreads and
the response I got was overwhelming. Within three months of posting it
up, Soul Fire was the most liked unpublished work of all time.
Encouraged by this, I set to work on larger, better planned out draft
which I completed in November 2012 after leaving my job in Victor Harbor
and moving to the city.
With a completed draft in hand I set about half-heartedly looking at
some of the larger publishers, but I couldn’t find one that suited what I
wanted to write (adventure, pure and simple).
So in May 2013, I decided
that self-publishing was the way to go, after talking to some of my
author friends and investigating the process. It’s been almost two
months since I officially released Soul Fire and the journey has been
amazing and scary and wonderful. It’s been interesting working out how
to go about being a self-published author, but having my book on my
bookshelf and readers eagerly anticipating the sequel has made it all
worth it.
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