Ep 25: Autumn Krause Interview

So what drew you to the fantasy gothic genre in the first place? I know we talked a little bit about it, but yeah, write it.

You know, I think like, it's just my general personality, you know, it speaks to that.

I think I am drawn to like, kind of like darker themes.

Obviously, you know, this book does is very heavy.

I think death actually is a very pervasive theme in my books kind of through all of them.

And so I think, you know, death and gothic go hand in hand, see that woven through.

all of my all the stories that I've written, just kind of like this contention of what it is to be human beyond this ticking clock, you know, be aware of your own mortality, and wrestling with that.

Well, you know, also, you know, facing, you know, the fantastical and the transcendent and the magical at the same time.

So I feel like, and I think, you know, like, fear has always been like, you know, as I said, I was a very, you know, I was a very fearful little girl.

You know, the world is very always very scary to me.

My imagination was my I myself was scary to myself because of like my own imagination.

And so I think fear is another big element in my books that I explore.

So no matter what I'm writing, it gets like a darker twist, like no matter what.

Yeah.

totally fair i think it's really fun if that's something you're you're like really into and i don't know i love a good gothic so i'm i'm right there with you i like a spooky theme and like having to explore that and putting characters through a little bit of stress before they make it to the happily ever after it's a

Totally fair.

No, I love it.

Do you have any advice for aspiring authors? You know, I would say to just keep writing the industry.

It's like so hard.

Obviously, it is so full of rejection.

And, you know, overall, I feel like you face more rejection than you face more no's than you do yes's.

But every single but so the more you love writing, the more you just put yourself into it, the more it sets you up for those yeses.

And to just, you know, to not give up, you just have to be like, so stubborn, you have to like have this conviction inside yourself that I'm not going to stop, you know, like, I will get as many no's as I need to get until I get the final yes, which is hard to do.

I feel like, you know, like as humans, you know, it's like it can so often feel futile.

And I think for humans, a sense of futility is something that can very much, you know, paralyze us and immobilize us and kind of because, you know, I think we inherently want meaning in everything.