Interview with Jad El Khoury, Author of The Black Shards

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to jot down The Black Shards: Symphony of Dusk Volume 2?

I wished to inform the tales of individuals who appeared like me. Of heroes that appeared like me. All heroes on the market are both Caucasians or American minorities. We don’t have many African heroes (relaxation in peace Chadwick Boseman) or many center japanese heroes, and many others. I wished to jot down a fantasy romance story that spans continents on this globalized world, and that offers with folks that may be seen as minorities within the west however aren’t once they’re proper at house.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the principle characters of The Black Shards: Symphony of Dusk Volume 2, what would they be?

Sky Boat Song – the outlander model to be sincere.

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

Fantasy is my favourite style fingers down!

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Fire and Blood by G.R.R. Martin.

What scene in your e-book was your favourite to jot down?

My favourite scene to jot down didn’t truly make it into the e-book because it was pushed to e-book 3, which might be out quickly. It’s a really intimate scene between the 2 fundamental characters. A really intimate scene if you already know what I imply…

My different favourite scene to jot down was the prologue because it takes us again to a bedtime story that Clara, our protagonist, heard her mom inform her as a baby. It is informed as a bedtime story but it surely carries a lot which means for what’s to return and the challenges forward.

Do you’ve any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

I stroll round whereas writing. I channel my character’s angst and frustration, as a result of I’ve an excessive amount of empathy for my very own good, after which I begin selecting fights with myself.

Do you’ve a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

I simply don’t prefer to plan forward.

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

I would love for them to do not forget that anybody is usually a hero however above all even these with the purest of intentions can grow to be villains.