Why Celebrate “Daughter Of Blood”?
Right now, Daughter of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three) is a Kindle Monthly Deal from 1-11-2019 until 2-12-2019 in the US and Canada — all courtesy of my US publisher, Harper Voyager.
To support the whole monthly deal process, I decided to make November the Month of Daughter of Blood here on the blog, all of which I explained here: http://helenlowe.info/blog/2019/10/31/a-kindle-monthly-deal-for-daughter-of-blood-a-month-of-qa-thursdays/
Most particularly, I heralded the Month of Q&A Thursdays for Daughter — which kicked off last week with four, fabulous questions from Phoebe, Sandy, Lindsay, and Chris. High fives to you all, not only for sending in questions but sending such great questions. I’m really thrilled you’re so engaged with the story. ICYMI you can ‘read all about’ the first Q&A here: “Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night #3) Q&A Thursday.”
I also promised to do something DAUGHTER-y of a Monday as well, throughout November — although it was more WALL-y last Monday, with a WALL #4 (Working Title, The Chaos Gate) progress update: It’s Not The End Yet But I Can See It From Here (I figured that was probably the Burning Question for most readers… )
Making November the Month of Daughter is all about celebrating the book/story, but it occurred to me that “Why Celebrate Daughter?” might be a genuine query and/or reflection.
“Why The Heck Not?” is of course the obvious answer and I do feel it’s a good one. Given a choice, it seems far more logical and reasonable to celebrate a book and the whole business of getting it written and out into the world, rather than otherwise.
And as Phoebe pointed out last week, the WALL books are all “pretty hefty” so reaching the end of the long and winding road of getting them written at all, is cause for ongoing celebration.
The vainglorious approach, of course, would be to averr that, since I penned it, Daughter must naturally be worthy of celebration (Note: for the absence of any doubt, this is a jest, dear readers, of like kind to the self-mockery at which Haimyr the Golden excels. 😉 ) I find, however, after due consideration, that I am not inclined to vainglory.
More seriously, in terms of reasons for me, as author, to continue celebrating Daughter (specifically, as opposed to any other of my books), I offer up the following three:
- Daughter, more than any of its predecessors, taught me that every book is different and so can’t be approached in cookie-cutter fashion, even if the book immediately preceding it really clicked in terms of writing flow and the unfolding story, as The Gathering Of The Lost did for me. But tempting though it was to try and replicate the same formula, Daughter was a very different story so the muses weren’t having a bar of that malarkey. Although it may have made the writing a little faster if I could have ‘just done the same thing again’, I’m very glad I heeded the muse.
- The characters of Myr and Taly, Faro, Rook, and Tirael all made their WALL debuts in Daughter and were all wonderful to write, each in their own unique way.
- Although Malian is still an important player in the story, Daughter was always going to be the Book of Kalan and I can’t help feeling he rocked it, both in terms of his part in the action of the story and overall character development.
One of the wonderful things about reading, though, is that it’s interactive: the author may write a book and put the story and the characters out there, but each reader has their own unique response to and take on both. So feel free to comment and contribute your thoughts. 🙂
I think that Daughter is worth celebrating because of the humanity of the characters. There are moments of true heroism, but these are not remote. Myr and Orth calling out Arcolin during the seige of the camp is one of these moments
Thanks for commenting, Katrina. I’m glad you liked this moment in the book.:)