This week YA author Verlin Darrow took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Verlin Darrow is the author of Prodigy Quest. (See YEM’s interview of Verlin Darrow here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
Good afternoon twitter – I'm Author Verlin Darrow and I'm taking over the @YoungEntmag #YAauthorTakeover right now.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
then a letter arrives from a fifty-year-old time capsule sending him on a quest to find a book of wisdom his karmic ancestors have been compiling for centuries. #YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
4.) Tris has to grow into someone beyond his years to get the job done. He learns the hard way that the smartest boy in the world…isn’t. #YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
"Write what you know," who was it Hemingway, Twain – you tell me. But I've seen other writers who hate to pull from personal – for me Prodigy Quest does have very real truths in it…despite it being in the Speculative genre. #WritingCommunity #booktwt #YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
Curious for any fellow writers…did you begin writing when you were younger, or later in life? I didn't know I wanted to be a writer until I was 19 in crappy campground in Italy when it rained for a week to relieve boredom. #writerslife #writerslift #YAauthorTakeover #booktwt
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
And another question for #WritingCommunity Not when you started to write, but when did you feel like a writer? For me the first time was when I was traveling and happened on my first book on a shelf in a bookstore. I ran over to show the clerk, who couldn't have cared less.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
2.) In a word, me. I had a lot in common with Tris. At his age, I memorized the Guinness book of world records, most of the World Almanac, and all the Sears catalogue prices. I missed no opportunity to show off what I knew, andI felt superior to pretty much everyone.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
3.) At any rate, I find I can channel that kid and know how what he’d say and how he’d respond to all the wild stuff that happens to him on his quest.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
For my #protagonist eventually it does, too. But curious – any other writers feature #reincarnation that believe or don't believe in it? Thinking of @monicabyrne13
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
Or perhaps the writers of "Once and Future" by Cory McCarthy and A.R. Capetta – I'm not sure they are on twitter, but curious to know.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
Let's talk #shortstories The only short story I ever wrote got published in an anthology. It's about a girl who tries to save lobsters from her mom's cook pot. #writerslift #YAauthorTakeover #booktwt What about you? Tell me you first – maybe only short? pic.twitter.com/N64ibGypkS
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
1.) In therapy, clients work toward change and I do my best to facilitate this process. I offer wisdom, practical suggestions, compassion, and humor. Some people need psychic glue to keep from falling apart. Some need solvent to loosen up concretized points of view. #therapy
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
3.) I know how and why people change, and my work is infused with realistic portrayals of these, even as fantastic things happen to my characters. #YAauthorTakeover #booktwt #writerslift
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
The list is here. https://t.co/41av9Oz327
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
With only 30 minutes left on this platform I wanted to share a few thoughts. #YAauthorTakeover #WritersCafe #WritingCommunity
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
I've got 12 awful manuscripts in a shed. I learned by doing. Eventually, I got good at it. #authorlife #authorinterview #writingadvice #YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
And writing, well for me from being a therapist and a spiritual seeker kind of guy, I've got lots to share about how people tick, and how they change…
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
What are you reading? What is in your "to-read," list? pic.twitter.com/aMXln80h2E
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
"YEM: What is some advice you would give to others who want to be authors as well?" @AuthorDarrow #YAauthorTakeoverhttps://t.co/3SE1aux0qg
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
What do you like best in a book? I like quirky, unpredictable plots and lots of humor. #YAauthorTakeover @AuthorDarrow
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
Thank you @YoungEntmag for the #YAauthorTakeover. Thanks, to you all for the interest. I've actually been working on a new book in between tweets, so keep your eyes peeled for that one next year. It doesn't have a title yet. It's about a h.s. kid getting sucked into a cult.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
In the meantime you can chat with my here @authordarrow and this is my YA Speculative Novel Prodigy Quest. Thanks again. Signing off now. https://t.co/JA7mdGvAba
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) August 26, 2021
