The Background Story of "The Place Between Nowhere: Blank".

Nothing is more motivating than a friendly challenge from your sibling. While story and world building has always been a passion of mine, the discipline of Philosophy really hadn't caught my attention until I was about thirteen. I was excited to use this tool to explore aspects about the world I live in and create hypothetical for where it was going. Like most things that excited me, I talked about it with and to anyone who would listen. Unfortunately for my little sister, that meant that most of my long rants would fall onto her shoulders and remain there until she'd finally roll her eyes and tell me "Alita, I don't care". I told her that was okay for now, but I was going to make story, like the many stories I have told her before, only this one would make philosophy interesting to her and other teenagers. At this she rolled her eyes and said, "yeah, right..."

"Watch me" I confidently replied and set to work. I wrote a couple chapters before giving up, simply because I wasn't sure how to make the book interesting or what about philosophy to cover. Until a little after my fourteenth birthday when I read most of "The Ismail" by Denial Quinn and marveled at his integration of telekinesis and other species into a philosophical writing. Quinn's unique ideas about the modern day's social construct in western cultures had inspired my ideas of social hierarchy and cooperation amongst species. Those concepts tied together when my dad brough home cubed mirrors he'd built that you could peer inside of to look a seemingly infinite space. That was how the mirror room was born and the book began to write itself.

Unfortunately, I had a bad case of writer's block and couldn't think of how to continue past the mirror room until mid way through freshman year of high school, but with the encouragement of my family and the feedback from my first Beta readers the manuscript was finished that summer. When it was done I told my mother that I had wanted to publish my freshly written manuscript, she said okay and about a month later I had signed a disclosure agreement from Christian Faith Publishing for the manuscript to be reviewed and eventually accepted by the company board. In that moment, my childhood dream of publishing a book before my eighteenth birthday was in motion at last.

After a year of revision after revision, approving layouts and critiquing cover designs, the emotional reward I felt from finally holding the physical book in my hands in unlike anything I had ever experienced in my short life so far. Now, I'm even more motivated to write and peruse a career as an author. A job which will incorporate all my diverse interests and nothing would give me greater satisfaction. Usually, I'll have several booking in the making, but I plan to focus on the release of Blank's sequel "The Place Between Nowhere: Revelation", as I'm currently calling it, by the end of Spring of 2028 if not sooner. I can't wait to see where my writing journey will take me as I follow my passion and share what I love with the world.