For a bit of a different type of guest appearance, my buddy Madeline dropped in to visit, laugh, and do a great interview with me about Aisuru! We talk about a TON of stuff, including some inside looks into how Aisuru came about and “behind the scenes” of the story (mildly spoilerish at times). Oh, I also do the official 2R announcement and the store release!
A brief listing of things we talk about during the interview in approximate order 🙂
- Introducing Madeline
- Elevator pitch for Aisuru
- What is a yokai and the relevance of yokai to current Japanese society
- Meaning of the word Aisuru
- Influences for the story
- Research done for Aisuru
- Cultural differences American readers will find in reading this story set in Japan
- What parts were the most fun to write
- Biggest challenge in writing the story
- How Aisuru breaks from common young adult romance tropes
- About my pen name of Anma Natsu
- What I learned as a writer while working on Aisuru
- About the cover design
- Who the story appeals to
- Sakura as a strong female character
- How to get Aisuru and which method earns me the most money per copy
- What’s next (2R reveal!)
- Reviewing Aisuru on Goodreads and elsewhere
- Final bits left before launch and preordering status
- Any plans to revisit Aisuru’s characters in a future work?
This interview will also be available on Madeline’s blog at http://madelineturnipseed.blogspot.com/2015/03/aisuru-interview.html, in a few days 🙂
During the episode, I noted that you can now preorder Aisuru from me and if you checked these show notes, you might find some coupon codes. Well, here they are 🙂
- Preorder Special! Take 10% off your entire order with coupon code Z61OX5CVCBWG (expires 3/27)
- Ebook Discount! Get either eBook version for only $2.99 with coupon code PWFBW7J3QASJ (expires 3/31)