Nick Hayden
By Nick Hayden
April 19, 2013
Shock. Disaster. The world ending.
And then what?
That was the primary question I had when I started writing The Select’s Bodyguard. In our world-building meetings, we had created the event that demolishes much of Jalseion. But that’s not story. That’s setting. What was the story?
Bron and Calea are the story.
I won’t try to recount how exactly the two came about. (Well, it’s not the first time I’ve written an initially unlikable, domineering woman, oddly enough. Or a somewhat, what shall we say, “single-minded” man.) In any case, from the beginning they were intertwined, two powerful personalities rotating around each other like binary stars.
The duality of Bron and Calea, in fact, structures the entire novel–the way the chapters jump in time and perspective and tense.
You’ve just started to uncover the details of their relationship with one another. Hopefully you’ve started to love them or hate them or feel something about them. Because, in the end, as much as I love Jalseion and the various aspects of the world, this story is about them.
But they’re fictional. You, dear reader, are not. (I hope.) What questions do you have? What would you like to hear about in these weekly blogs? About the world? The art of creation? Why that fellow Rodion’s name reminds you, somehow, of Greedo from Star Wars?
You’re behind the scenes with the author. What intrigues you?
I mean, besides my handsome face and charming wit, of course.
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