JoJo The Bookaholic

AMANDA BOUCHET   INTERVIEW PART 2 Character Interview Hi Cat! Hi Griffin! How are you both doing? Griffin: Hello. Well, we’re somewhat tired. Taking over the world is hard work. Cat: Don’t listen to His Grumpiness. We’re great. I’m the Queen. We’re about to become parents. Actually, I’m kind of terrified. And excited. Good Gods…there’s a lot to think about. I love your love story, and I must say you two are always so busy! Always doing amazing, heroric things! You two are awesome!! So what do you like to do on the days when you get to relax? Cat: What does she mean, relax? Griffin: That’s what we do when we’re in bed. Cat: Are you sure? Griffin (chuckles): I’m talking about the sleeping part. Cat: Ah, okay. Because the rest is pretty…ahem…athletic. Griffin: I enjoy swordplay. Cat (rolls eyes): Now that was a bad pun. Griffin (scowls): Get your mind out of the gutter, wife. Cat (smiles) Griffin (sweeps Cat off...

AMANDA BOUCHET   INTERVIEW PART 1 Hi Amanda!! Thank you so much for doing this! You always write creative, magical stories that always have me in awe. Where do you get your ideas from? Thank you for inviting me! I’m mostly a “fly by the seat of my pants” writer so ideas come to me as I write. I usually start out a book with only the beginning scene in my head and then build from there with whatever comes naturally to move the characters and the plot forward. For the Kingmaker Chronicles, the magic and fantasy world took shape from the first scene of the first book ( A Promise of Fire ), but then I expanded on it to encompass much more than just one person and one place. As for where I get my ideas, it definitely takes some brainstorming and writing down and keeping notes—and seeing what works and sometimes discovering what doesn’t work after writing a scene. It would be fun and maybe easier if everything just magically came to me or filled my hea...