Ooh, well, I don’t want to give away too many spoilers but suffice to say they both get deeper into the heart of secrets at Moncha Corp and the Canadian winter features heavily…ħ. Can you give us any teasers about what's to come next for Lacey and Jinx? It actually did work out very well, and helped the writing go much smoother - so I think I will keep on using that method for future books.Ħ. I was on a bit of a tighter deadline, but I also wanted to try something new, so I planned out the major plot points before starting work on the novel. Yes! I was a lot more diligent when it came to planning/plotting JINXED than I was for The Potion Diaries. Did the planning process for JINXED differ to the planning process for The Potion Diaries series? If I could afford any baku that I wanted, I’d have one in the shape of a tiger! I’ve always felt an affinity with tigers ( they’re solitary creatures - a bit like writers!) but also I am a Year of the Tiger in Chinese horoscope and day of the tiger in Burmese horoscope! It seems like fate…ĥ.

If you could choose any baku, what would it be and why? I was thinking about how much time I spend on my smartphone and realised that it would be so much more interesting if smartphones were more interactive! Then I read a news article about robotic cats and dogs being used to comfort the elderly in nursing homes and the baku was born!Ĥ. How did you come up with the concept of bakus? Did you draw inspiration from anywhere to create them? I don’t think any science fiction novelist could have predicted smart phones and the powerful computers in our pockets, so even technology that seems absurd now could one day be real…ģ. I did do a lot of research on robotics and computer engineering before writing JINXED - but in science fiction there’s still a lot of scope to imagine what the future might be. Oh yes, I’ve always been a tech geek at heart! I was a bit of a coder and a science fair nerd when I was in high school, and I worked with friends who went on to become great engineers and scientists themselves. Have you always been a fan of tech, and did you have to do much research for the book? This book is very tech and science orientated, and unlike anything I've ever read from you. She christens her new baku ‘ Jinx’ but something seems a bit off about him… he seems almost real.Ģ. When my main character, Lacey, can’t afford the kind of baku she really wants, she fixes a broken one she finds abandoned by some railway tracks. It’s a pleasure to be back! I’m really excited for JINXED as it’s a bit of a change from The Potion Diaries - it’s a near-future science fiction novel set in Toronto, Canada, where the next iteration of the smartphone is interactive smart pets known as bakus.

Hi Amy, it's so lovely to have you on my blog again! Can you tell us a bit more about the first novel in your new series, JINXED?

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