This week YA author Rucker Moses took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Rucker Moses is the pen name of Craig S. Phillips and Harold Hayes Jr. Rucker Moses is the writing duo behind Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found. (See YEM’s interview with Rucker Moses here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
Hello! Young Entertainment Magazine! @rucker_moses here taking over YE's twitter feed for a bit to talk about our new book for young readers, Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found!
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https://t.co/kUb3LLq1em Here is a link to @penguinrandom where you can purchase the book, read reviews and all that fun stuff!
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We will be taking questions and sharing some insight into what it takes to write a book, the story of Kingston and share some behind the scenes on our writing process. #YAauthorTakeover
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https://t.co/oCNJkLpdEa First up! We wanted to drop our book trailer here. Narrated by the one and only @childishgamzeno
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We went live with @Justin_Willman yesterday to discuss magic. It was a great talk about what's it like to be a young magician. Check it out here! https://t.co/sLEx4i0SRH
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https://t.co/3MNiaBzZ36 Another video we wanted to share with all of you is about a black magician many of you may have never heard of. The infamous BLACK HERMAN #blackherman #YAauthorTakeover
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#blackherman was a towering figure during the Harlem Renaissance and one of the best known magicians of his time. Sadly, you can't find much about him in the history books. We weaved his incredible story into the lore of our book #kingstonandthemagicianslostandfound
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So writing this book was a long journey. It started as TV Pilot for Amazon Studios and after a long windy road it became a book series from Penguin Random House. So advice to any aspiring writers out there. Keep at it! Believe in your ideas. Don't give up on them.
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Another #FunFact about the writing of Kingston. We did a 80k word first draft that got almost completely scrapped when we started on revisions. There are a few vestiges of that first draft in the book but it was basically a page 1 rewrite. So don't be afraid to start fresh!
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We always like asking writers what they listened to when they are writing. For us it was a lot of @flyinglotus @philipglass @nas @lilbaby4PF @TCO_Official
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Along with real magicians like Black Herman we also included some real magic tricks into the world of Kingston. #skullofbalsamo is one of our favorites! pic.twitter.com/aMNSK7SACw
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Echo City #Brooklyn is also a big character in our story. While Echo City is a fictional neighborhood in Brooklyn we tried to make it feel as real as possible. One fun place we included is a pizza spot named Not Not Ray's. Anyone from Brooklyn know the reference?
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Here is an exclusive early rendering of a piece of concept art that we had done for our trailer. you can spot the final in the trailer. Created by the incredible @ArtofRichardFoo pic.twitter.com/KTLpEuCDzX
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Ok! It's been fun sharing with you all about Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found! Follow us at https://t.co/ml9qVm5S3H where we will be posting more fun stuff about the book and also be revealing the book cover for book 2 which is coming in October 2021! Good times!
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