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K.J. Bryen
I have been writing stories ever since I first learned to write. My first book I ever wrote was "The Rainbow Heart" at the age of four, and it was more pictures than it was words. But ever since th...view moreI have been writing stories ever since I first learned to write. My first book I ever wrote was "The Rainbow Heart" at the age of four, and it was more pictures than it was words. But ever since then, I have been hooked.
Through elementary up until high school, I read up to a book a day. My loves have always been supernatural, horror, and fantasy, but I would occasionally fall in love with a well-written drama. I wasn't always sure that I wanted to be a writer, though.
When I began attending college, I double-majored in English and History. Likely to your surprise, and definitely to mine, I didn't enjoy enjoy English. Although I loved the reading and writing, I found my interpretations of literature to be very different than others. I value the openness of art, so when people told me I was viewing that art wrong, I got turned off to the idea of confined learning.
I did, however, stick with History. There, I got to read and write without being judged for my interpretations. I graduated with a B.A. in History in December 2013.
I wrote my first book while I was in college. I completed my first version of Lokte my second semester of college. It was only after the fact that I realized the book was dreadful.
Thinking that a failure, I went onto a new novel with the hopes of getting it right this time. It took a year and a half to complete, but in December of 2013, I completed my first YA novel, The Victoria Benson Saga: The Lamia (release date to be announced).
There it was. I was finally the author of a book I was proud of. But instead of immediately continuing the series, I thought back to Lokte, that poorly organized first novel. It really was a train wreck. But something within me told me to write it; that although the first version was bad, the core concept was solid. So, vowing to come back to my YA series, I rewrote Lokte and finished it in early May of 2014.view less