What about them captured your imagination? Tell us about where your fondness for mafia and gangster stories comes from. An oft-quoted piece of writing advice is to write the book you can’t find but want to read.
I had a vision of what Jade City would be: a heady blend of gangster epic, family saga, and martial arts fantasy. When an idea lodges in your mind and doesn’t go away, that’s when you know, as an author, that you really ought to pay attention. But I kept thinking about it off and on for another year. I ended up writing another story as my submission piece and the premise for Jade City remained in my notebook along with many other unused ideas. Jade City.” And then I called it a “wuxia gangster saga” that “takes place in a modern world with guns and cars, but where combat is hand-to-hand and power rests with those that have jade.” That was all I had: just a concept, no characters or plot. In one of my old writing notebooks, there are a few lines that date to mid-2013 when I was brainstorming ideas for what I would write as a submission piece to the Viable Paradise writers workshop. How did the premise come together for you? All of this takes place on the island of Kekon, a modern, Asia-inspired metropolis.
Jade City is the start of an epic gangster fantasy saga centered on a family of Green Bone warriors, the Kauls, and their involvement in a clan war over magic jade that amplifies their fighting powers. Born and raised in Canada, Lee is a black belt martial artist, a former corporate strategist, and action movie aficionado who now lives in Portland, Oregon with her family. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirtheįonda Lee is the award-winning author of the YA science fiction novels Zeroboxer and Exo.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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