Really, all the cultures and planets in Carve the Mark have blended origins, so every culture or group has a wide variety of representation. You’ve spoken on it before, but did that reader response in form the way you approached some aspects of this second book? I wanted to show how young women navigate difficult situations - not perfectly, but with more depth and more care than people give them credit for.Ĭarve the Mark did generate a backlash for what some saw as problematic racial elements. It’s very important to me because I think young women are portrayed a lot as being petty and shallow in pop culture. The book is so centered on not just Cyra but on Akos’ sister, Cisi, and there are all these very different young women. But on a bigger note, one of the biggest ideas I tried to tackle is what young women do with power. A substantial portion of The Fates Divide takes place on that planet, so we get to see how the shadow planet lives. One of the most exciting parts of it was writing about Ogra, which was introduced in the first book as this shadow planet - it’s mysterious, no one has met Ograns, they don’t know how they live or what their world looks like.
There’s all these planets in this solar system and in the first book we really only see one. What kind of themes are you exploring this follow-up, both continuations and new ones?
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