The trouble is, she can’t remember what happened during those 15 seconds, so she needs a partner who can quickly fill her in. A special agent who “gets things done,” Peri has the ability to jump 15 seconds back in time, so she can redo that brief period and make changes. Rather than the first-person perspective of The Hollows, she decided to take some ideas and write in third person from multiple viewpoints. Her The Hollows series, also begun as a short story and has flourished under her care into 16 books and counting.Īsked to describe her Peri Reed character, Harrison said she started the new series while trying to avoid becoming stagnant as a writer. It’s easy to see that she’s an expert at encouraging such growth. The short story took root and grew into three novels. Lots of time travel movies were popular at the time, so she decided to splice the two ideas into one short story just for fun.
In her Madison Avery YA trilogy, she wanted to write about good and bad angels and their hidden influence on humans. Pixies, for example, are small and fly, so they’d likely live short lives, need a rich food source, and be more active at dusk and dawn to avoid predators. “I love my magic,” she said, and it’s easier “to connect with the reader” through a modern-day setting.Įducated as a biologist rather than a writer, she enjoys creating new species using the science she learned. She found the idea of urban fantasy appealing, though, because it would allow her to bring fantasy into the modern world. That fantasy led to Decoy Princess, also in a medieval setting. Years later, she wrote her first book, First Truth, a coming-of-age story with talking dragons and mysterious beings in a medieval setting. When Harrison first read Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, she was disappointed that the main character couldn’t actually speak aloud to dragons. Kim Harrison, bestselling author of The Hollows series, The Peri Reed Chronicles, and traditional fantasies under the name Dawn Cook, joined moderator Carol Malcolm for the virtual panel “A Conversation with Kim Harrison” on Sunday at 5:30PM on the Urban Fantasy Track’s Facebook page.
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