A Few Questions with author Jeanne C. Stein at RT
This afternoon Jeanne C. Stein, author of the Anna Strong series of books, sat down with me and my roommate to chat about the four books currently out and the upcoming release of RETRIBUTION. Here is a little of our conversation.
RT: Tell us about why you started coming to the RT convention.
Jeanne Stein: I didn’t know about RT until I started writing and getting reviewed by RT and then started coming to the conferences. I didn’t even realize this existed so it’s a whole new world that’s opened up. But, now I will come back as often as I can.
RT: What’s your favorite part?
JS: I think the panels are my favorite part, because you get a chance to answer reader’s questions. And there is so much going on all the time that you really don’t have a chance to sit down one on one with a reader. So I like the panels because it gives you a chance to answer questions, it gives them a chance to come up afterwards and say hello, and to meet people you might have been emailing with or who read your blog. I like the reader interaction and there aren’t very many cons where you can do that. Plus, there is so much to do! Especially because, I am a fan as well as a writer and there are so many panels I would have loved to have attended but they conflict with ones I am on. No one could ever come to this conference and say they couldn’t find anything to do. This is really a great conference.
RT: Tell us about Anna Strong, the main character from your series.
JS: Anna Strong is the protagonist of my series. Before she was turned into a vampire, she was a bounty hunter, so you know she wasn’t a shrinking violet to begin with. So she wasn’t your typical maiden in distress who got attacked and made into a vampire. She was a strong female to begin with and of course, having vampire powers makes her even stronger.
Her vulnerabilities are that she wants to retain connection to her human family and that’s the tightrope that she walks. The choices that she has to make about hiding who she is from the people that she loves and trying to still be a good person. In a previous panel, we talked about how if you have a protagonist or character that is super strong, you have to give them some kind of vulnerabilities otherwise there is no story, no conflict.
The other thread that goes through these stories is good and evil and how to tell the difference. The first book is probably the darkest.
In the first seven books, Anna will have been a vampire for a year. And it will explain why she is the Chosen One, and why Williams has been pressuring her.
Thank you, Jeanne!
RT: Tell us about why you started coming to the RT convention.
Jeanne Stein: I didn’t know about RT until I started writing and getting reviewed by RT and then started coming to the conferences. I didn’t even realize this existed so it’s a whole new world that’s opened up. But, now I will come back as often as I can.
RT: What’s your favorite part?
JS: I think the panels are my favorite part, because you get a chance to answer reader’s questions. And there is so much going on all the time that you really don’t have a chance to sit down one on one with a reader. So I like the panels because it gives you a chance to answer questions, it gives them a chance to come up afterwards and say hello, and to meet people you might have been emailing with or who read your blog. I like the reader interaction and there aren’t very many cons where you can do that. Plus, there is so much to do! Especially because, I am a fan as well as a writer and there are so many panels I would have loved to have attended but they conflict with ones I am on. No one could ever come to this conference and say they couldn’t find anything to do. This is really a great conference.
RT: Tell us about Anna Strong, the main character from your series.
JS: Anna Strong is the protagonist of my series. Before she was turned into a vampire, she was a bounty hunter, so you know she wasn’t a shrinking violet to begin with. So she wasn’t your typical maiden in distress who got attacked and made into a vampire. She was a strong female to begin with and of course, having vampire powers makes her even stronger.
Her vulnerabilities are that she wants to retain connection to her human family and that’s the tightrope that she walks. The choices that she has to make about hiding who she is from the people that she loves and trying to still be a good person. In a previous panel, we talked about how if you have a protagonist or character that is super strong, you have to give them some kind of vulnerabilities otherwise there is no story, no conflict.
The other thread that goes through these stories is good and evil and how to tell the difference. The first book is probably the darkest.
In the first seven books, Anna will have been a vampire for a year. And it will explain why she is the Chosen One, and why Williams has been pressuring her.
Thank you, Jeanne!
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