Sarah Elle Emm has just released NACREOUS, the fourth book in
her young-adult, dystopian Harmony Run Series.
About NACREOUS
After two members of The Freedom Front are arrested and
interrogated by the UZTA’s tyrannical President Nicks, Rain Hawkins and her
friends face the alarming reality that their plans to liberate the mixed zones
across the United Zones of The Authority might not come to fruition.
While the resistance movement is growing outside the walls
of the zones, the president’s forces are strengthening and putting citizens
everywhere in more peril than ever. When Rain receives warnings that her
cousin, Calista, has agreed to support plans to kill the mixed zones, and that
her life could be on the line at the upcoming pure zone initiation ceremony,
she must decide where her loyalties lie and if all of her allies can be
trusted.
As The Freedom Front use their abilities to unravel the
mystery of the ceremony, The Authority captures some of their friends, forcing
TFF to either go into hiding, or plan a rescue mission that could jeopardize
everything they’ve been fighting for.
About Sarah Elle Emm
Sarah Elle Emm is the author of the Harmony Run Series, a young-adult fantasy and dystopian series, released in May
2012 by Winter Goose Publishing. (PRISMATIC, May 2012, OPALESCENT,
February 2013, CHATOYANT, September 2014, NACREOUS, August 2015)
Her debut fiction novel, MARRYING MISSY, was published by Bird Brain Publishing in October 2011. Sarah
is a graduate of The University of Evansville, she has lived and worked in
Mexico, Germany, England, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and has traveled extensively
beyond. Sarah lives in Naples, Florida with her family. When she’s not walking
the plank of her daughters’ imaginary pirate ship or snapping photos of
Southwest Florida scenery, she is writing.
Fun
Facts about Sarah Elle Emm by the author
Writing Playlist
So…Music. Some authors swear by it. They have their playlist
set in the background while they pen their latest manuscript.
Me? Not exactly. Music is very important to me. I believe in
dance parties, and by dance parties I mean cranking up my I-pod to the music
fitting my mood, be this salsa, classic rock, blues, country, classical,
whatever, and dancing alone in my room or kitchen. (Yes, I said classical and
country in the same list).
My kids may or may not be in attendance. They like to watch
and laugh. Sometimes, they join in. But as far as my writing process goes, the
music is sort of my warm up. So I might turn on some music that fits my mood
for parts of the story and listen to it in my car or at my desk before I write,
but not while I am actually writing. I need it to be quiet in the room, so I
can tell the story…(Ahem, hear what my characters are trying to tell me). ;)
While I wrote NACREOUS, and the other books in the Harmony
Run Series, my favorite music warm-up to set the mood was Lorde. Specifically,
the songs Team and A World Alone. In fact, if any of the
books from my series could be made for film, I would beg producers to include
one of those songs in the movies.
My Writing Process
I can’t sit down and force myself to write every day because
it begins to feel too mechanical, but I am definitely one of those people who
thinks about writing, story ideas, characters, scenarios all of the time, awake
or asleep.
I love using my dreams in my writing and have written a few
of them into scenes in the Harmony Run Series. Back in college, the good ol’
stone ages, I had one of the most terrifying dreams of my life about a man with
a triangular-shaped eye chasing me down a corridor, one door after the other,
with this woman’s voice echoing all around us, telling him to kill me. When I
got to the end of the corridor, I opened the last door, and he was standing
there facing me. I woke up sobbing.
About a year later, a psychology professor at my university
asked some of us to share dreams with him so he could demonstrate dream
analysis. I bravely raised my hand, (this was huge for me, since I am a very
shy in person), and shared my dream in vivid detail. After I finished talking,
the entire class got eerily quiet and the professor told me I was dealing with
issues beyond his realm of help, and went on to the next student’s dream. That
student shared a dream about not being able to make a goal in a soccer match,
and the professor dissected his dream in depth for fifteen minutes.
Years later, I incorporated that dream, adding on some
twists and turns of course, into book one from the Harmony Run Series,
PRISMATIC.
I also come up with ideas when I’m looking out of the
kitchen window, when I’m walking, driving, cooking, gardening, taking my kids
to martial arts, helping with their homework, basically, every waking moment. I
take heaps of notes. I jot notes down for days. And when I’m ready, I sit down
and type everything I can. I woke up the other night, and grabbed the notebook
and pen beside my bed and wrote down an idea for another story. So my writing process is sort of a twenty-four hour thing.
Oh, and probably the most important part of the process…How
could I forget? My dog, Shorty, has to harass me to sit in my lap throughout
the day. She eventually gives up and sleeps at my feet or
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