While this is a great tool for fostering tension and keeping the stakes high, I think it’s possible to do so while not killing off characters for shock value alone. When I wrote Kings of the Wyld I wanted it to be different from what I’d been reading for the last decade or so-which is to say books wherein the main characters could and would die at any moment. What difficulties do you face writing the death of a beloved character?
Of course, fantasy readers (and agents, and editors) love a good trilogy, so while I devised the plots of books two and three shortly after finishing the first, it was important to me that each book feature a new cast of characters, so as not to devalue the point of the first. I wrote Kings of the Wyld to be a standalone book, since it’s very much a story about a band’s last great adventure.
Did you know where the storylines of Bloody Rose and Outlaw Empire were heading when you wrote Kings of the Wyld?
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