When writing a trilogy, it’s easy to forget that the middle book needs to add something to the story, not just the thing that connects the beginning of the end.
It’s something writer Marina Lostetter clearly thought about while writing her fantasy with a dash of horror novel The Cage Of Dark Hours (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the middle piece of The Five Penalties trilogy…or the following email interview about it.
In her first three novels — Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra — writer Marina Lostetter took readers on an epic, sprawling, sci-fi space opera trip that lasted over 4,000 years.
But for her fourth, she’s keeping things grounded…sort of.
In the following email interview, Lostetter discusses her horror-seasoned epic fantasy novel The Helm Of Midnight (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first book of The Five Penalties trilogy.