{"id":3568,"date":"2016-05-25T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2016-06-02T05:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T09:54:30","slug":"interview-katlynn-brooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/interview-katlynn-brooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Katlynn Brooke"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, we have the awesome privilege of\u00a0bringing to you a conversation with the author of The Six and the Crystals of Ialana<\/em>, Katlynn Brooke. \u00a0We had the opportunity to talk with Brooke for a good while, and we have to say it was an enlightening and entertaining discussion.<\/p>\n Without further adieu, our conversation with Katlynn Brooke:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tellest: <\/em><\/strong>How did you get the inspiration for Eglog?\u00a0 He seems like the single most despicable person I have ever read about in a very long time.<\/em><\/p>\n Katlynn Brooke:<\/strong> I am so glad to hear that! I have done a lot of research on psychopathic personalities. I felt that in a world where there is no law, or at the best, unfair laws, that those placed in positions of power are, by necessity in this chaotic world, malignant personalities. A kinder, gentler man in charge of forced army recruitment would be considered ineffective. Striking terror into hearts and minds is exactly how a malignant and putrid man would handle his job, and Eglog was a master. Worldwide, we can still see these types in powerful positions today: that when given free rein, Ids run amok, and they\u2019re actually no better than Eglog.<\/p>\n But fasten your seatbelt, Eglog is not alone. There are more of that ilk to come throughout the Ialana series! Not all are as over the top, but they\u2019ll keep you awake at night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T: <\/em><\/strong>Ialana seems at times so familiar and yet so different from our world.\u00a0 How did you come up with this realm?<\/em><\/p>\n KB<\/strong>: <\/strong>I have always been fascinated and inspired by tales of Atlantis. While Ialana is not Atlantis, it is based on what I imagined the legendary continent to look like; particularly the City of Rhiannon. Like Atlantis, the ringed city of Rhiannon, to the inhabitants of northern Ialana, was only a legend. Few knew for certain if it actually existed. It is our world, but in a time so long past that all history and all traces of it have been lost. Today, we might still find remnants of this lost civilization in our present time in the form of legends, myth, and strange creatures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T: <\/em><\/strong>So in a way, this is almost fictional history?\u00a0 This isn\u2019t something that takes place on a fabricated planet\u2014it is Earth presented from beyond recorded history?\u00a0 That is an interesting twist!<\/em><\/p>\n KB:<\/strong> It could be one of our possible pasts. I did not want Ialana to exist on a fictional planet. I wanted the reader to be able to identify with the familiar. For example, the seasons are the same, the animals and flora are the same, and except for the mutant creatures and differently shaped or placed continents, it is Earth. I refer to other continents in this world (such as Afarre, which is Africa), so some of our more familiar locations co-exist with Ialana.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n