The killer and whale story at the very beginning
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Re: The killer and whale story at the very beginning
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Well said, and I agree with you. The whale story did give an sight on the prequels. And I appreciate them.Shakiera Reece wrote: ↑06 Feb 2022, 19:26 I think because the author meant the book to be a standalone read, he shares the whale story for those who haven't read the first two books.
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This makes so much sense because I haven't read the first 2 books, I jumped straight into Totem because there was such a buzz about it I felt I just had to read it. I enjoyed it as a standalone novel but it also made me want to read the prequels which I'll definitely do .Charlie Sheldon wrote: ↑03 Feb 2022, 22:39 I wrote the books to be stand alone tales, and have had enough readers start with, say Adrift or Totem, and then they go back to read the first two, usually. Of course, it is best to read the books in order to fully experience how the characters and events start and grow, and how the books are linked, separate but telling one grand story. When I started writing the first one, Strong Heart, in 2013, I had no idea or sense this might be a series. None. A series, at least to me, is both good and terrible - good because you can play with many characters and complex story lines, but terrible because you are then trapped in the series, and must decide how to finish, how many books to write. When I started writing Strong Heart I used the story frame Conrad uses in Heart of Darkness - he had a group of men meet at a pilot boat and then while waiting for the tide to turn to go out to the ship one of the people, I think it was Marlowe, told the story of Kurtz and the Heart of Darkness. I love that sort of frame, stories in stories, so in my initial draft I had a lifeboat crashing ashore up on Haida Gwaii off British Columbia and the trapped sailors, in winter, marooned, unable to cross the mountains to the one known settlement far away until the weather broke,. forced to hunker down in shelter. The mate asks one of the characters, William, who is a sailor from the ship the lifeboat came from, and who was born on Haida Gwaii years before before being sent away to a government school to become like a white man, then running away to the states, to tell the others a story to keep them sane. That was my frame, but when I finished the book the tale seemed too long and so I simplified it, removed the frame and just told the story William told as a tale itself, Strong Heart. But I had all these chapters about this lifeboat and sailors and storms and after finishing Strong Heart thought, well, what about this lifeboat? Where did it come from? What happened to the ship? What happened to the other sailors? So that was when the series began, as I built those chapters into Adrift, which became the second story, happening about four or five months after the first. The third tale, Totem, is really two books in one, and I debated long about how long to make the series, and in the end decided I wanted a trilogy, something long, one grand tale, but not endless, and hope the readers will agree. In the end of course, all that is important is that the reader, in the best case, fall into the book, be there, in it, whatever order the tales are read.
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You haven't encountered this story before - the killer whale and the bear - because it is entirely fictional, composed from my own thinking and surely influenced by all the research I did. I am thrilled readers seem to accept the story as a true-like ancient legend, that was the point. However I was extremely careful in all three of the books in the series to carefully avoid using any actual ancient legends from any tribes, as this would have been disrespectful and improper in these days of resistance to "cultural appropriation". Even the killer whale and bear legend, which is being told by a woman of the Haida people and tribe, is said by her to be a story from "before there were tribes and people" and this was intentional to make sure I was not in any way trying to assume anything in the book was linked to specific legends.Wy_Bertram wrote: ↑24 Apr 2022, 03:37 Creation stories have always been my favourite kind of lore, and the story of the killer whale and the bear isn't one I've encountered before. I think, for one, it sets the mood for the book, revealing a piece of sacred Native culture which Sarah and her friends are trying to protect. It was certainly a great way to start the story.
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