Ask the Author: Kay Kenyon
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Kay Kenyon
I'm so sorry for having missed this question! So, belatedly: The rights to this series are in a complicated situation, and to protect my work I have taken down book one from bookstores. I truly hope that someday the complete series will be available again. On the up side, the complete series IS available on audible.
Kay Kenyon
Well, this is embarrassing! I just saw your question. So, ridiculously late, here is my answer: I think about that series now and again, and have had so many requests to write another book in it -- but I have been resisting because I feel like my emphasis should always be on new things. Also, I have a publisher issue with this series and it has greatly complicated any possible further books in the series.
Kay Kenyon
Hi Tom :-)
The 1930s - and particularly in England - was a period overshadowed by the catastrophic losses of World War I. In 1936 the British were exhausted and nearly every family was grieving deeply personal losses. People didn't want to believe that Hitler would bring war to their European doorstep. In hindsight, this attitude was understandable, but ultimately ruinous. Reading about the thirties is always accompanied by a sense of looming darkness and an acute sense of missteps and what might have been. These currents of war, grief and fear caused deep divides in public opinion, and set up my story where combating fascism must be relegated to the shadow world of espionage.
The 1930s - and particularly in England - was a period overshadowed by the catastrophic losses of World War I. In 1936 the British were exhausted and nearly every family was grieving deeply personal losses. People didn't want to believe that Hitler would bring war to their European doorstep. In hindsight, this attitude was understandable, but ultimately ruinous. Reading about the thirties is always accompanied by a sense of looming darkness and an acute sense of missteps and what might have been. These currents of war, grief and fear caused deep divides in public opinion, and set up my story where combating fascism must be relegated to the shadow world of espionage.
Kay Kenyon
Hey, Jim - I've been absent on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ -- obviously! Profuse apologies for not responding in any decent time interval.
I've been enjoying my sojourn on the fantasy side, so I don't have plans *right now* to write another SF novel. I have an SF short story coming up in an anthology on avatars from Kevin J. Anderson and Mike Resnick.
My new novel At the Table of Wolves overlays the historical context of the 1930s in Britain with some psychological powers, so it is fantasy, but feels very realistic. You might like that one more than some of my recent wild and weird fantasy stories. Thanks for writing!
I've been enjoying my sojourn on the fantasy side, so I don't have plans *right now* to write another SF novel. I have an SF short story coming up in an anthology on avatars from Kevin J. Anderson and Mike Resnick.
My new novel At the Table of Wolves overlays the historical context of the 1930s in Britain with some psychological powers, so it is fantasy, but feels very realistic. You might like that one more than some of my recent wild and weird fantasy stories. Thanks for writing!
Kay Kenyon
I am so late in answering. Somehow I never got a notice from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ on questions. Anyway, apologies! I don't consider that I ever have writer's block, at least not in the sense most people mean it. I sometimes struggle *between* books, unable to decide what to write next. But when I have a work in progress, I set weekly page goals and then I write whether it is any good or not. And then, if indeed the scene never warmed up and took off, I just revise it extensively.
Kay Kenyon
Please excuse the tardy answer! Yes, A Thousand Perfect Things is. I felt that Tori Harding's story was finished by the end. But I do always try, at a book's conclusion, to give a sense of the characters moving forward, living complete lives beyond the defining events of the story, the most memorable challenge of their lives. When I do this, sometimes readers feel there may be sequel in store. Not this time! My next work will be a series, though.
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