Interview with Ross Hightower, Author of Spirit Sight

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to write down Spirit Sight?

What occurs to kids whose magical presents trigger ache in folks round them? What would their lives be like? I wakened one morning with these questions caught in my head. Though I by no means wrote fiction earlier than, I went straight to a espresso store and began writing. The causes are misplaced to the mists of reminiscence, however I used to be hooked. It took three years, however Spirit Sight is one reply to these questions.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the principle characters of Spirit Sight, what would they be?

I by no means thought of it, however the music that got here instantly into my thoughts after I thought of my foremost character, Minna, was My Shot from Hamilton. She’s younger, scrappy and hungry and he or she by no means throws away her shot.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to write down?

I learn principally, however not solely, fantasy. Outside just a few flash fiction items, I write solely fantasy.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Pride and Prejudice (can’t imagine I by no means learn it earlier than), The metropolis we Became by N.Okay. Jemisin, The Child of Chaos by Glen Dahlgren and too many to call after that…

What scene in your e book was your favourite to write down?

Aron (the trickster within the hero’s journey) finds Harold (an inquisitor in search of redemption) in a tavern to be able to nudge him in the fitting path. They ought to be enemies, however the coronary heart needs what it needs. It was enjoyable as a result of they’re flirting is tentative and fraught. It flowed onto the web page. One of my favourite responses to my writing was somebody, after studying that scene, requested, “Were they flirting?”

Do you could have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so forth.)

It’s not likely quirky however I’ve to hearken to music, and I write a lot better in a busy place, like a coffeeshop.

Do you could have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

Kindness is (nearly) all the time one of the best course of motion

If you can select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your e book, what would it not be?

The story has deeper themes involving the hurt brought on by prejudice and authoritarianism, however what I like greatest concerning the story is the perseverance and morality of the heroes. If folks come to like and admire Minna as a lot as I do, I might be very comfortable.