{"id":1710,"date":"2025-08-15T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:49:45","slug":"author-qa-with-emma-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Author Q&#038;A with Emma Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Author Q&amp;A with Emma Lamb<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Black-and-White-Beauty-Quote-Pinterest-Graphic-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Black-and-White-Beauty-Quote-Pinterest-Graphic-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Black-and-White-Beauty-Quote-Pinterest-Graphic-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Black-and-White-Beauty-Quote-Pinterest-Graphic-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Black-and-White-Beauty-Quote-Pinterest-Graphic.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Emma Lamb is an author from North Wales.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tells us about your writing\/ published book(s)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/237814920-the-awakening-of-the-light?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=w9ImjYnkoe&amp;rank=1\">The Awakening of The Light<\/a> is about a girl called Victoria discovering she has powers and that she is the vessel for The Light she discovers that she has a destiny to defeat The Darkness.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1714\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version-1140x1709.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-tale-of-two-forces-jpeg-version.jpeg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Where\u2019s your favourite place to write?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Somewhere comfortable, I don&#8217;t mind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you approach starting a new book?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Plan it out first<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What\u2019s your favourite genre to read?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have you always wanted to write?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not always, but I did enjoy creating a story in school once<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What do you do when you have writer\u2019s block?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I have writers block I leave my book for a few days to try and think or I read over what I&#8217;ve written and maybe rewrite parts of it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tell us about a scene that you loved but had to edit out of your book<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s a hard one since there are none that I can think of<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you like reading the same books you write?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nope, but who does?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do write under a pen name?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nope<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you choose your book\u2019s title(s)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes but it aint always easy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What advice would you give to someone wanting to write their first book?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Write down the idea you have if you have it, plan it out on paper and then go ahead!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you do research for your books? If so, what kind of research?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nope<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you fit writing into your everyday life?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well I started my book series in lockdown so I had nothing to do for 18 weeks the first draft for the awakening of the light was completed in that time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you approach \u2018world building\u2019?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For world building I guess writing it around my characters because at first I have nothing and then it comes to me once I get into the story!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you handle criticism?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In regards to my book I haven&#8217;t had any yet, however I think i handle it well because if I do something wrong I can improve on that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Describe your perfect character to me<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ooooo thats a good question because I really don&#8217;t want to give away spoilers for the perfect character in my series that isn&#8217;t in the awakening of the light<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tell me about your current work<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So The Awakening of The Light is my first book ever written and the first in my series A Tale of Two forces that will probably be about 9 or 10 books<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tell me about your main character<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Victoria is my main character, she is 15 years old at the start of the awakening of the light and finds out she&#8217;s the vessel for the light she&#8217;s sophia&#8217;s sister and her mother is emilia who was the queen of paradisia until it was taken<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Would you want your book made into a film?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh now that would be interesting to see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How many books do you own?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">abt maybe 5 or 6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Where can you find Emma?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ataleoftwoforces.wordpress.com\/?_gl=1*bsttz*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NTQyMjQ3MTcuQ2p3S0NBandrYnpFQmhBVkVpd0E0Vi15cXVYOWJVVVV1VS1ONGpncGY3eVdtLWhzMUV6MkJtUDFvcXo4UDdWWVA0Yk44OUcxcm1zUzJ4b0NsYWNRQXZEX0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*MTI5NTEzOTg4OS4xNzUyMjMzOTEyLjc4NzkwNzM5Ni4xNzU0NDc3ODM0LjE3NTQ0Nzc5MzY.\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emma1293\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Q&amp;A with Emma Lamb Emma Lamb is an author from North Wales. Tells us about your writing\/ published book(s) The Awakening of The Light is about a girl called Victoria discovering she has powers and that she is the vessel for The Light she discovers that she has a destiny to defeat The Darkness. Where\u2019s your favourite place to write? Somewhere comfortable, I don&#8217;t mind &nbsp; How do you approach starting a new book? Plan it out first &nbsp; What\u2019s your favourite genre to read? Fantasy &nbsp; Have you always wanted to write? Not always, but I did enjoy creating a story in school once &nbsp; What do you do when you have writer\u2019s block? When I have writers block I leave my book for a few days to try and think or I read over what I&#8217;ve written and maybe rewrite parts of it &nbsp; Tell us about a scene that you loved but had to edit out of your book That&#8217;s a hard one since there are none that I can think of &nbsp; Do you like reading the same books you write? Nope, but who does? &nbsp; Do write under a pen name?\u00a0 Nope &nbsp; How do you choose your book\u2019s title(s)? Yes but it aint always easy! &nbsp; What advice would you give to someone wanting to write their first book? Write down the idea you have if you have it, plan it out on paper and then go ahead! &nbsp; Do you do research for your books? If so, what kind of research? Nope &nbsp; How do you fit writing into your everyday life? Well I started my book series in lockdown so I had nothing to do for 18 weeks the first draft for the awakening of the light was completed in that time &nbsp; How do you approach \u2018world building\u2019? For world building I guess writing it around my characters because at first I have nothing and then it comes to me once I get into the story! &nbsp; How do you handle criticism? In regards to my book I haven&#8217;t had any yet, however I think i handle it well because if I do something wrong I can improve on that. &nbsp; Describe your perfect character to me Ooooo thats a good question because I really don&#8217;t want to give away spoilers for the perfect character in my series that isn&#8217;t in the awakening of the light &nbsp; Tell me about your current work So The Awakening of The Light is my first book ever written and the first in my series A Tale of Two forces that will probably be about 9 or 10 books &nbsp; Tell me about your main character Victoria is my main character, she is 15 years old at the start of the awakening of the light and finds out she&#8217;s the vessel for the light she&#8217;s sophia&#8217;s sister and her mother is emilia who was the queen of paradisia until it was taken &nbsp; Would you want your book made into a film? Oh now that would be interesting to see &nbsp; How many books do you own? abt maybe 5 or 6 &nbsp; Where can you find Emma? 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