Braidee Otto

I think if I had it my way and if I could do it over again, I probably wouldn't market with tropes at all.

Interesting.

And I'm going to see if I can convince Penguin Random House to do that for book two because, of course, this book ends on...

Quite the cliffhanger.

It sure does.

And I kind of just want, like I miss the day of going into a book blind.

people could kind of read through it and be like, oh, actually, I don't know where this is going.

Is that?

Is that when they arrive at Eritrea, like the castle palace?

And he like helps her off and then he's like.

And he helps her off.

Yes.

No, that was not intentional.

But I'm glad that that's the way it comes across.

Because that's perfect.

I had to put the book down and I was like, yes.

And, like, I feel like those little moments are almost like microtropes, I suppose, and I'm totally fine with using those in marketing.

But, like, the big ticket items, I'm like, let's keep it a secret.

How many books are going to be in the series?

This is a trilogy.