Legacy and the Queen (Legacy and the Queen, 1)

So like the first novel we did was the Wizard and Artist series. It was important for that to be basketball because I wanted the first story to be one of empathy and compassion.

And there was no sport better than that than tennis. There's golf, but tennis, you have more movement, which to me symbolizes life in general because life is, there's a lot going on.

And so you have to deal with the person across the net from you as well as the strengths and weaknesses in your own movements and how you feel in your own body.

And because of that, it was important for this story to be a tennis story.

I'm like, man, my knee is really sore right now. Maybe I'm doing too much. Maybe I need to back off. Man, my lungs are burning. Maybe I can just slow down here. I'll do an extra two sets tomorrow. It'll be okay. That sort of stuff.

So like the first novel we did was the Wizard and Artist series. It was important for that to be basketball because I wanted the first story to be one of empathy and compassion.

And there was no sport better than that than tennis. There's golf, but tennis, you have more movement, which to me symbolizes life in general because life is, there's a lot going on.

And so you have to deal with the person across the net from you as well as the strengths and weaknesses in your own movements and how you feel in your own body.

I'm like, man, my knee is really sore right now. Maybe I'm doing too much. Maybe I need to back off. Man, my lungs are burning. Maybe I can just slow down here.

And that's when you just got to say, you know what? I'm not negotiating with myself. The deal was already made.

even looking at this book here, you look on the back here, this is a barcode...instead of just slapping a barcode on the book you got to make sure that it comes from the world...so how can you design a barcode that's effective and efficient but still designed to fit the part of the world

we try to handle things with great care...we look over every scene, come through every line...the book...all these sort of things that I have that the readers will never know but it was important for me and Annie to go through

there's so many notes and so many books filled with like Nova...creating the name itself in like legacy and Silla and then like the rules of the world and the history of the kingdom of Nova when it once was a kingdom

we got to focus on doing that right...I'll create a new character and then I'll say okay this is how the character is then I'll say well why is it character that way well what's his family like okay then where did the father come from then where did the mother come from and then okay well where do they live now what are the rules of the world that they live in

like Legacy and Silla and then like the rules of the world and the history of the kingdom of Nova when it once was a kingdom like all these sort of things that I have that the readers will never know but it was important for me and Annie to go through

even looking at this book here you look on the back here this is a barcode oh yeah right but instead of just slapping a barcode on the book you got to make sure that it comes from the world so how can you design a barcode that's effective and efficient but still designed to fit the part of the world