War of Storms by Erica Cameron Blog Tour :)
War of Storms (The Ryogan Chronicles
#3)
by Erica Cameron
Publication Date: November 5, 2018
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Publication Date: November 5, 2018
Publisher: Entangled Teen
The
immortal mages have risen, and they’re out for blood.
Khya
arrived at the Ryogan coast too late to stop the invasion. Now,
cities are falling before the unrelenting march of an enemy army, and
Khya’s squad is desperately trying to stay ahead of them. Warning
the Ryogans, though, means leaving her brother imprisoned even
longer. Time is running out for everyone.
how can her
squad of ten stand against an army of ten thousand?
Calling in
help from every ally she’s made in Ryogo, Khya tries to build a
plan that won’t require sacrificing her friends or her brother.
It’s a tough balance to find, especially when the leadership role
she thought she wanted sits heavy on her shoulders, and her
relationship with Tessen is beginning to crack under the strain.
The
immortal mages have risen, and they’re out for blood.
Khya
arrived at the Ryogan coast too late to stop the invasion. Now,
cities are falling before the unrelenting march of an enemy army, and
Khya’s squad is desperately trying to stay ahead of them. Warning
the Ryogans, though, means leaving her brother imprisoned even
longer. Time is running out for everyone.
The end is
coming, and there’s no way to know who’ll be left standing when
it hits.
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EXCERPT
“I also saw Sanii
and Yorri moments after their bond.” His quiet words take a few
seconds to land. When they do, they hit like a boulder.
I’d forgotten that.
How had I forgotten? Tessen was the one who told me about the bond,
and when he did, he admitted that he’d known since the day it
happened.
“Your brother
always felt like he had to chase everyone else’s progress, and it
made him wary. He was on guard with everyone but you.” He shifts
closer. “That day though, he looked... I don’t even know how to
describe it. It isn’t an expression I’ve seen in any other
moment.”
Closing my eyes, I
turn away, not because I don’t want to see him, but because I don’t
want him to see me. Everything he’s saying is true, and yet it
doesn’t ease the fear knotting my stomach when I think about
bonding myself.
I’ve talked about
it before, but only in offhand comments as nebulous as heat waves.
I’ve thought about it, but only the good parts—being able to hold
on to someone I loved even beyond death. In a daydream, the pain that
death brought never came; I didn’t have to consider how easily a
sumai bond could tear a soul apart.
“Nothing is
certain, Khya, but when has that stopped us?” Tessen shifts,
something he’s wearing scraping against the rock. “Why are you
letting it stop you now?”
“This is different!
I’m not afraid of suffering. I’ll gladly throw myself into a
maelstrom if I need to.” My hands are tight fists against my
thighs, but my words flow like a waterfall once I start. “How can
whatever joy someone finds in a sumai be worth the inevitable agony?
And it is inevitable. Even immortality isn’t forever. We’ve
proven that. A sumai means one day tearing someone I love in half and
leaving them bleeding from the inside out. Because of me.”
Silence. My own
breathing is shockingly harsh in the stillness. When did I start
sucking in air like I was sprinting?
Why isn’t Tessen
saying anything?
“What if I told you I was willing?” he asks
after so many breaths I’d stopped counting. “What if, for me,
suffering that kind of agony is worth it for everything that came
before?”
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Erica Cameron is the author of books
for young adults including the Ryogan Chronicles, the Assassins
duology, and The Dream War Saga. She also co-authored the Laguna
Tides novels with Lani Woodland. An advocate for asexuality and
emotional abuse awareness, Erica has also worked with teens at a
residential rehabilitation facility in her hometown of Fort
Lauderdale.
Interview
Do you recall how your interest in writing
originated?
I’ve always loved stories, no matter what
form they came in—books, movies, or TV. Books, however, we’re a
lot easier to carry around with me than the other options since I
grew up in the age before smart phones and streaming services. The
first sign that my fascination with stories included creating my own
should’ve been the assignment I completed in eighth grade. We were
supposed to work in groups and write a short picture book. Instead, I
got permission to work alone and turned in a 40-page mystery novel.
It wasn’t until high school that I tried writing a full book (it
didn’t work very well; I had no idea what I was doing), and it
wasn’t until after I’d graduated college in 2007 that I managed
to write anything longer than a short story. I haven’t looked back
since. In fact, rare has been the month when I haven’t written
something.
What inspired you to write your first
book?
Music. Before Borders closed, I was a supervisor
there, and that required coming in two hours before the store opened.
I had a habit of putting my iPod on shuffle and listening to music
while I went through the process of opening the store. One morning, I
happened to hear Mariella by Kate Nash back-to-back with
Creation Lake by Silversun Pickups. The first was a story
about a girl who’d voluntarily stopped speaking, and the second
used one line repeatedly—“There are twenty-four parts in a day
that divides me from you.” They specified parts, not hours,
and one can divide a day into as many parts as one wants. What, then,
I wondered, what happens in the twenty-fifth part of the day? The
whole idea for The Dream War Saga came by combining a girl who
doesn’t speak with the idea of two people meeting in the
twenty-fifth part of a day.
Do you write an outline before every book
you write?
When I first started writing, I was basically
incapable of outlining. It’s a long-standing aversion, honestly. In
grade school, teachers always tried to get us to brainstorm and plan
our essays, and the act was frustratingly painful for me. It was the
same in the beginning of my years as a creative writer. I couldn’t
outline no matter how hard I tried. Planning has been something I’ve
had to learn how to do over the years. Now, although it’s far from
planned to the last detail, I usually have a much better idea of how
all major pieces of a story will move before I start a book.
Have you ever hated something you
wrote?
Absolutely! Writing a book is a long process, and
publishing one is even longer. Over the course of drafting, revising,
editing, editing again, editing again, and editing again, I think
there has been a point in the life cycle of every book at which I’ve
hated that particular project. The feeling never lasts, though. Once
the books release and I’m no longer able to work on them—even if
I want to—there’s nothing but pride and accomplishment left.
If you had to do it all over again, would
you change anything in your latest book?
I always want
to change things, which is one of the reasons I almost never reread
one of my own books once it’s published. I can’t help wishing I
could tweak things—sometimes little phrases and sometimes whole
scenes. I think most authors are perfectionists at some level, and
I’m no different. There are always improvements to be made when you
have enough time to look back on a project and think about it for a
while.
Is there a message in your novel that you
want readers to grasp?
Although each of my series has
several themes that I think are incredibly important, there’s one
message I find myself returning to time and again. Everyone makes
mistakes, and most of those mistakes are forgivable—and by that I
mean we have to find a way to forgive ourselves for them. Points in
my own life have driven the importance of this message home, because
when I made mistakes, I committed myself to them. It took years in
certain instances for me to let go of the guilt my own choices left
me with, so now I seem to be working out the same lesson in fiction
for the rest of the world to learn from, too.
Do you have any advice for other
writers?
Finish first. It doesn’t matter how long it
takes or what method you use or what software you write on as long as
you have a book at the end. Editing can smooth out a lot of wrinkles,
but that process can’t begin until you have a finished draft to
work from. Write, finish, and then edit. Don’t worry about anything
else until you’re done.
What book are you reading now?
I
just finished Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan
McGuire the other day, and it was fabulous. I’m also in the last
fourth of Depraved by Harold Schechter, a non-fiction account
of the crimes of Herman Mudgett, a.k.a. H. H. Holmes. Additionally,
I’m listening to a dramatic adaptation of Emma by Jane
Austen. It’s not my favorite of Austen’s novels, but the
rendering of it with this cast is delightful.
If you had to choose, which writer would you
consider a mentor?
I was lucky enough to meet Jonathan
Maberry at several events in my home state over the past few years,
and he’s become a friend and mentor in that time. He’s got great
stories, a wide array of expertise and experience, and is incredibly
generous with his time and advice. Plus, his books are wonderfully
creepy and brilliantly written.
What are your current
projects?
Another series is coming next year from
Entangled! The first book is called PAX NOVIS, and it’s the first
book of an epic science fiction trilogy.
Human colonies
have spread across the Milky Way and have been at war for centuries.
Everyone depends on the resources carried by massive Pax Class Cargo
ships, the PCCS, including the stowaway teens hiding on-board the
Novis. No one knows it, not even the stowaways themselves, but they
may be humankind’s only hope when Pax ships start to vanish.
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