eSpec Books Focus #13: Lisanne Norman

Tell us a bit about your latest work.

It’s a Lost Colony story about Scots settlers who get stranded on a planet reemerging from an ecological disaster that destroyed most of the life there. It is slowly regrowing, but this is where my Scots landed. Some 200 years later they are an arrested civilization being studied by Earth anthropologists. It’s called Dream Warriors.

What happened in your life that prompted you to become a writer?

I couldn’t find enough books of the kind I liked to read when I was 8 years old. My parents bought me a toy typewriter for that Christmas.

What inspires you to write?

Despite me plotting out my novels to a scene-by-scene level, they are still organic and can and do change. I want to know what happens next!

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