January 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Our host Darriel Roy interviews Ian Fanselow the author of the action packed adventure book, “World's Apart."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for watching. This
shows all about giving you insights and showcasing brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
As always, I want to kicks out your morning with
some motivation advice to help you feel inspired and energized
to start your day today. I want to talk about
the importance of understanding that the key to being magnetic
(00:20):
is being yourself. Authenticity is magnetic. Having a magnetic personality
or aura happens naturally when we show up in the
world authentically, not trying to be anyone but ourselves. In fact,
there was no one on the planet exactly like you.
Your magnetism stems from being original. When we are authentic,
we bring something to the world that has never been
(00:42):
seen before, simply for the fact that there is only
one you. We all know someone who has a magnetic aura,
whether it's someone who we know personally or someone we
see on TV. Their confidence and authenticity makes them magnetic
and as the key factor as to why they are successful.
Care I missed today to stop caring what other people
think and start embracing all the unique things that make you.
(01:06):
As Brian Ford quotes, no one is you, and that
is your superpower. Next up on the show, we have
Ian Fanselo, the author of the action packed adventure book
worlds Aparts. Ian, thank you so much for being on
the show today. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm doing great. How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I am doing amazing. I have your book right here,
so I want to talk to you about, you know,
before we get into your book, worlds Aparts, let's talk
to you a bit about your passion for writing. When
did that begin?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, So, I think I've always really been into telling stories. Like,
you know, when I was in elementary school, I was
coming up with games. When I was in middle school,
I like kind of came up with this whole like
com book universe that I wanted to create, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
In high school, I was really like writing.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Down all of these ideas and kind of creating this
you know, larger world as I was coming up with
more and more stories to tell. In college, I had
like written some ideas for TV. So really, I would
say it's not just like a passion for writing, but
just like a passion for storytelling in general. And sometimes
that is a book, sometimes it's something else. But this
(02:11):
is kind of the first thing that I was able
to bring to fruition completely.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I love that. And this is your first book. What
made you take the leaping get published?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, so kind of with what I was just saying, like,
I had all these ideas of things, but I never
like finished them. They were stories that I wanted to
tell and I even like wrote out, but couldn't actually
like get into a position where I could completely finish it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If it was a TV show, I wasn't able to
get the team required, if it was a video game,
I couldn't like, you know, get all of the art
and all of those things. And when I had the
idea for this book, I realized, like, this is something
that I could actually bring all the way from start
to finish. And then last year, at the start of
the year, I said, I don't want to have any
more excuses to not be actually publishing my creative works
(03:02):
that I've always been wanting to do, so I kind
of set a goal for myself to by the end
of the year publish it, and I was able to
do that in the near the beginning of November.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Congratulations. By the way, a lot of people have all
these great ideas, but they don't actually take the step
right to get published. But it's amazing that you did so,
so congratulations on that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you, And let's talk about the.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Premise of the book. Worlds apart. Talk to us about
the character Laura.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, so Laura is a teenage girl and she's just
discovered she has feelings for her best friend Evelyn and
wants to, you know, ask her to the big dance
that's coming up in there middle school before Evelyn is
going to move away because she's she's her parents got
divorced and her and Evelyn's going to move away soon,
(03:49):
since she wants to kind of have this big reveal
of her feelings to her best friend. But before any
of that can happen, they're kidnapped by aliens and separated.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And it's like this kind of adventurous.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Story of Laura trying to find Evelyn through all of
these different planets and these these weird and wacky aliens
to kind of get in the way, and you know,
Laura really showcases a lot of you know, courage by
by overcoming these things, and a lot of intelligence by
being able to solve a lot of a lot of
(04:21):
unique problems. And that's kind of really the basis of
her character and the story, and she's also very into
like classic sci fi stuff, so she's always making like
comparing the situation she's into, you know, Star Trek or
Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, things like that, but it's never
quite the way that she expects. So it's also kind
(04:43):
of realizing a Matt like kind of take someone who
loves sci fi and all of the different stories that
sci fi has told and like its familiar with all
of them, and then put them in a totally different
but still sci fi, you know, themed situation kind of
seeing how they can usually note overcome things, but also
where those assumptions can lead to mistakes being made. M h.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And as you mentioned, this book has elements of sci
fi aliens, New galaxies. What kind of journey can readers
expect to go on by reading this book?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The main idea is like, it's this story about going
finding your way home and finding your best friend.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
In this in this strange galaxy.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So you know, that's a very familiar story with something
like you know, the Odyssey about a journey home, and
you know it's a very common trope in media. But
what I tried to do was kind of really take
that baseline, very familiar on storyline storyline, and then add in,
you know, more unique elements about the aliens and the
world and the character. Really so and what I think
(05:49):
that what really is exemplified in the Journey is this
mixture between the action moving everything forward while Laura's character
also growing in parallel with that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So it's kind of a very personal story.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
For Laura, but she's inside this world that has these
much grander elements going on.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm kind of curious, how did you come up with
the character Laura. What kind of drew you to this character?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So kind of what happened one night.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I was actually like going to bed one night and
I was trying to sleep, and usually when I'm trying
to sleep, I think of like storiage and things, and
I have the idea for this character who loves science
fiction and is put into another world and has to
like kind of explore that. So like that was the
core idea, and then I had a lot of other ideas,
(06:40):
like throughout my life, you know, going back and whenever
I have an idea for something that might make for
a good story or a good part of the story.
I kind of just like record that in my head
and I have it just kind of sitting there for
when it finds use. And that character fits so well
of just a person who likes science fiction going to
another world with this other idea I had, going from
(07:01):
place to place to try to find a person and
then getting invested in whatever problems are going on in
those places, Like you know, at one point that idea
was like, you know, it could be like a series
of islands and you're on a boat and you're going
from to each island and each trying to find somebody,
and each island has its own like storyline, or it
could be something else. And eventually, when I had the
(07:22):
idea for the character Laura, that fits so well, it's like, oh,
what if they are all different planets for that other idea,
And then that kind of fit in with my ideas
for what the kind of villains were trying to do,
their kind of goal in this, and every single piece
kind of fit in.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Together with other ideas I had.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But Laura's personality was like the key that kind of
stuck everything together, or the glue I guess is a
better metaphor stuck everything together.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Very nice, and Laura is courageous and she's clever. How
does she use these traits to navigate this new world
she finds herself in.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so the courage is very important because I don't
make the uh, finding Evelyn easy. It's I don't like,
there's no like, oh, what a coincidence? This is all
working out for us. There's every chance there's something to
go wrong. It often does go wrong, and Laura just
has to not give up, and she goes past the
(08:17):
point points where most people would give up. And it's
really at one side is a story just about not
giving up no matter what. And then in terms of
her kind of cleverness and intelligence, one thing I really
tried to do to really show her intelligence is have
her be wrong more often. You know, a lot of
times when someone writes an intelligent character, they just like
(08:41):
know everything instantly, or they figure out a thing and
it works perfectly. And with Laura, you see her come
up with ideas based on the information she has, and
you see how she does that, and then sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes she makes
false assumptions based on information she has, and you kind
of really see her fail. But then also with the
(09:03):
courage that I that I mentioned, comes back and tries
again with a new idea, and and you can really
see how how smart she is because of how she
acts when she makes a mistake, not just when she
gets the answer right the first time.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I love that you made her into a very spunky character.
I think that's that's exciting. So who is your favorite
character in your book and why?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, so I've obviously spent the most time with Laura,
and you know, she's so important to everything where everything
is built around her. But also sometimes it's kind of
like the boring answer to say the main character, so
for this kind of question. So I also really like Fiss,
Who's this who's one of the villains of this book.
She's this sentient cloud who builds gadgets, who's also like
(09:54):
a crime boss type thing, and that's very like, kind
of weird and unique. And what I like about her
is the fact that, like a lot of stories will
have aliens be basically just like humans with like different
ears or something, or like green skin or something like that.
But I try to have some aliens that are human
like and some aliens that are very much not And
(10:16):
feis being a.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Floating cloud who can talk is very much.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Not a human and I, you know, had a lot
of fun with like having her talk in a way
that makes sense, but still like just like feels kind
of off, where she like is slightly more formal, but
uses like formal like words and phrases in context that
wouldn't really exactly fit. So she's not like specifically overly formal,
(10:43):
just kind of has a slightly off feeling that you
can't quite place. And that was really fun, Whereas with Laura,
it's a lot more stressful to be writing like for
Laura because like, I really have to get that perfect
because the story is so much leaning on or as characterization.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And if rolls apart could be turned into a blockbuster movie,
who would play the role of Laura and why?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So I've thought about this a lot, and you know,
when it comes to like books versus movies versus TV shows,
if you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Know, which is another option.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
There are some things that like work better as a
book versus a movie, and one of those things is
that you have to fill in the blanks with your imagination.
And when I was writing for Laura, when I really
tried to utilize this, and I describe her very her
physical traits, not very much at all, right, I like
(11:39):
talk about what clothes she was wearing.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
She has, Like in the cove right here, you can
see she has like this reddish hair.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But in the first few pages it says that she
dyed her hair red, so you don't even know her
natural hair color. And I really did that so that
anybody reading it will fill in the blanks with how
she looks with whatever they imagine.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I don't say how tall she.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is, for example, or you know what her skin tone is,
anything like that, so that anybody who's reading it could
really put themselves in those shoes. And I feel like
if I were to make it into a movie, I
would have to make decisions about like what she looks
like in a way that I would rather readers be
able to put themselves in the shoes of the hero here.
(12:24):
That's and I really try to do that with the character,
because I try to make her as relatable as possible.
I mean, even though she has like a lot of
unique traits about like she like is obsessed with star
Trek and has memorized the entirety of star Trek, which
is not something that most people have done, but in
terms of her appearance and her goals are very relatable to.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The everyday person.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So I kind of want it to be anybody can
put their themselves in those shoes and can't really do
that with a movie.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's the wonderful thing about books, right, You use your
imagination to create characters, to see how they look. You
kind of come up with how they look in your mind, right,
So that's that's the wonderful thing about books. You know.
On her journey, of course, she has villains and a
lot of barriers that she goes through, So talk to
us someone with the barriers that she goes through on
this journey and some of the villains as well.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, so there's quite a few villains that are introduced.
So there's the Arbeleste, which is this group of essentially
guards who have clamshell heads and these big laser gauntlet
glove things that are like chasing her down the other
and there's like so those are kind of one group
(13:30):
of villains. There's Fie, who's this kind of crime lord
person I mentioned, who's a cloud that she gets involved
with kind of coincidentally. There's Dwinn, who's someone who helps
her but Dwyn is kind of fits the role of
the guide character usually see in these stories where like
you know in Star Wars right when they in Star
Wars episode four when he when Luke meets Obi Wan Kenobi,
(13:53):
who like is like the person who teaches him about everything,
Laura meets Dwinn, but Dwyn is actually not very knowledgeab
about anything and just kind of it's like, let's just
do the thing we have to do and don't ask
me any questions. So there's kind of an informational obstacle
of she doesn't really know what's going on and has
to figure it out, as well as the physical obstacles
(14:13):
of these of these two kind of groups of antagonists
that are kind of pushing her on either side, and
both of those kind of play into her own kind
of anxieties about like she's she overthinks things a lot,
and having no information at all makes the problem of
overthinking really much worse. And that's kind of like really
(14:35):
her core flaw in this first book, where she is
overthinking everything and has to like figure out what is
the what information she can trust and what information is
useful and what things.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
She just has to accept that she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Know quite yet very exciting and ian. You know, I
created my platform to inspire to uplift to you really
showcase that anything is possible if you have a dream
and a vision. So for any readers or people that
you know how to create a vision out there but
are afraid to take that leap of faith like you did,
what would you say to inspire them to kind of
(15:12):
you know, get their content out there and really to
show the world what they have.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, So you can really publish your book through a
lot of different places for free, like on Amazon, on
ingram Spark, which is where all of the local bookstores
get their stock.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you can you know, kind of go online and
do those things.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
If you're interested in publishing books, if you're interested in
you know, publishing other things, then there are lots of
ways to do that. And you know, you can just
try to like meet people and make connections and it's
just worth like the effort because you know, you're only
going to be able to publish your first book once
and that might be a big step. But if you
want to you know, write lots of books, you have
(15:52):
to start with one and then kind of move from there.
It's really so there's really nothing, no reason to not
do this one, and then after that you can work
on the next one.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And speaking about publishing more books, are there more books
in your future?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I you know, this is the first of a series,
and you know it ends with you know, clearly another
book being required to conclude the story, maybe even more
than that. So I've written many many drafts of other books,
some in this series, some not, and I definitely intend
to kind of keep moving forward with that and you know,
(16:32):
not letting anything like that kind of stop me again.
Now that I've proven that I can release a book
and get it out there and get it into.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
People's hands, very nice and Ian for our viewers, I
wanted to learn more about your journey and keep up
with your projects. Where can they do so?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, So the book is available on Amazon. If you
just search my name or worlds apart, you should be
able to find that. And then I also have a
website which is just Ianfanslow dot com. So that's just
my name dot com and there you can sign up
for a mailing list where I can update you with
our progress on things, and it also has links to
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All my social media.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's posting about that kind of stuff as well, so
you know, both of those places are the great places.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
To find very nice. We're going to link that information
for viewers to see. And Ian, thank you so much
for being on the show today. Congratulations on such a
great first book, and we're excited to see what else
is in store for you.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Thank you so much, all right, see you.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
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Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for watching. This
shows all about giving you insights and showcasing brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
As always, I want to kicks out your morning with
some motivation advice to help you feel inspired and energized
to start your day today. I want to talk about
the importance of understanding that the key to being magnetic
(00:20):
is being yourself. Authenticity is magnetic. Having a magnetic personality
or aura happens naturally when we show up in the
world authentically, not trying to be anyone but ourselves. In fact,
there was no one on the planet exactly like you.
Your magnetism stems from being original. When we are authentic,
we bring something to the world that has never been
(00:42):
seen before, simply for the fact that there is only
one you. We all know someone who has a magnetic aura,
whether it's someone who we know personally or someone we
see on TV. Their confidence and authenticity makes them magnetic
and as the key factor as to why they are successful.
Care I missed today to stop caring what other people
think and start embracing all the unique things that make you.
(01:06):
As Brian Ford quotes, no one is you, and that
is your superpower. Next up on the show, we have
Ian Fanselo, the author of the action packed adventure book
worlds Aparts. Ian, thank you so much for being on
the show today. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm doing great. How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I am doing amazing. I have your book right here,
so I want to talk to you about, you know,
before we get into your book, worlds Aparts, let's talk
to you a bit about your passion for writing. When
did that begin?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, So, I think I've always really been into telling stories. Like,
you know, when I was in elementary school, I was
coming up with games. When I was in middle school,
I like kind of came up with this whole like
com book universe that I wanted to create, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
In high school, I was really like writing.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Down all of these ideas and kind of creating this
you know, larger world as I was coming up with
more and more stories to tell. In college, I had
like written some ideas for TV. So really, I would
say it's not just like a passion for writing, but
just like a passion for storytelling in general. And sometimes
that is a book, sometimes it's something else. But this
(02:11):
is kind of the first thing that I was able
to bring to fruition completely.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I love that. And this is your first book. What
made you take the leaping get published?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, so kind of with what I was just saying, like,
I had all these ideas of things, but I never
like finished them. They were stories that I wanted to
tell and I even like wrote out, but couldn't actually
like get into a position where I could completely finish it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If it was a TV show, I wasn't able to
get the team required, if it was a video game,
I couldn't like, you know, get all of the art
and all of those things. And when I had the
idea for this book, I realized, like, this is something
that I could actually bring all the way from start
to finish. And then last year, at the start of
the year, I said, I don't want to have any
more excuses to not be actually publishing my creative works
(03:02):
that I've always been wanting to do, so I kind
of set a goal for myself to by the end
of the year publish it, and I was able to
do that in the near the beginning of November.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Congratulations. By the way, a lot of people have all
these great ideas, but they don't actually take the step
right to get published. But it's amazing that you did so,
so congratulations on that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you, And let's talk about the.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Premise of the book. Worlds apart. Talk to us about
the character Laura.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, so Laura is a teenage girl and she's just
discovered she has feelings for her best friend Evelyn and
wants to, you know, ask her to the big dance
that's coming up in there middle school before Evelyn is
going to move away because she's she's her parents got
divorced and her and Evelyn's going to move away soon,
(03:49):
since she wants to kind of have this big reveal
of her feelings to her best friend. But before any
of that can happen, they're kidnapped by aliens and separated.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And it's like this kind of adventurous.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Story of Laura trying to find Evelyn through all of
these different planets and these these weird and wacky aliens
to kind of get in the way, and you know,
Laura really showcases a lot of you know, courage by
by overcoming these things, and a lot of intelligence by
being able to solve a lot of a lot of
(04:21):
unique problems. And that's kind of really the basis of
her character and the story, and she's also very into
like classic sci fi stuff, so she's always making like
comparing the situation she's into, you know, Star Trek or
Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, things like that, but it's never
quite the way that she expects. So it's also kind
(04:43):
of realizing a Matt like kind of take someone who
loves sci fi and all of the different stories that
sci fi has told and like its familiar with all
of them, and then put them in a totally different
but still sci fi, you know, themed situation kind of
seeing how they can usually note overcome things, but also
where those assumptions can lead to mistakes being made. M h.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And as you mentioned, this book has elements of sci
fi aliens, New galaxies. What kind of journey can readers
expect to go on by reading this book?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The main idea is like, it's this story about going
finding your way home and finding your best friend.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
In this in this strange galaxy.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So you know, that's a very familiar story with something
like you know, the Odyssey about a journey home, and
you know it's a very common trope in media. But
what I tried to do was kind of really take
that baseline, very familiar on storyline storyline, and then add in,
you know, more unique elements about the aliens and the
world and the character. Really so and what I think
(05:49):
that what really is exemplified in the Journey is this
mixture between the action moving everything forward while Laura's character
also growing in parallel with that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So it's kind of a very personal story.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
For Laura, but she's inside this world that has these
much grander elements going on.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm kind of curious, how did you come up with
the character Laura. What kind of drew you to this character?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So kind of what happened one night.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I was actually like going to bed one night and
I was trying to sleep, and usually when I'm trying
to sleep, I think of like storiage and things, and
I have the idea for this character who loves science
fiction and is put into another world and has to
like kind of explore that. So like that was the
core idea, and then I had a lot of other ideas,
(06:40):
like throughout my life, you know, going back and whenever
I have an idea for something that might make for
a good story or a good part of the story.
I kind of just like record that in my head
and I have it just kind of sitting there for
when it finds use. And that character fits so well
of just a person who likes science fiction going to
another world with this other idea I had, going from
(07:01):
place to place to try to find a person and
then getting invested in whatever problems are going on in
those places, Like you know, at one point that idea
was like, you know, it could be like a series
of islands and you're on a boat and you're going
from to each island and each trying to find somebody,
and each island has its own like storyline, or it
could be something else. And eventually, when I had the
(07:22):
idea for the character Laura, that fits so well, it's like, oh,
what if they are all different planets for that other idea,
And then that kind of fit in with my ideas
for what the kind of villains were trying to do,
their kind of goal in this, and every single piece
kind of fit in.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Together with other ideas I had.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But Laura's personality was like the key that kind of
stuck everything together, or the glue I guess is a
better metaphor stuck everything together.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Very nice, and Laura is courageous and she's clever. How
does she use these traits to navigate this new world
she finds herself in.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so the courage is very important because I don't
make the uh, finding Evelyn easy. It's I don't like,
there's no like, oh, what a coincidence? This is all
working out for us. There's every chance there's something to
go wrong. It often does go wrong, and Laura just
has to not give up, and she goes past the
(08:17):
point points where most people would give up. And it's
really at one side is a story just about not
giving up no matter what. And then in terms of
her kind of cleverness and intelligence, one thing I really
tried to do to really show her intelligence is have
her be wrong more often. You know, a lot of
times when someone writes an intelligent character, they just like
(08:41):
know everything instantly, or they figure out a thing and
it works perfectly. And with Laura, you see her come
up with ideas based on the information she has, and
you see how she does that, and then sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes she makes
false assumptions based on information she has, and you kind
of really see her fail. But then also with the
(09:03):
courage that I that I mentioned, comes back and tries
again with a new idea, and and you can really
see how how smart she is because of how she
acts when she makes a mistake, not just when she
gets the answer right the first time.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I love that you made her into a very spunky character.
I think that's that's exciting. So who is your favorite
character in your book and why?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, so I've obviously spent the most time with Laura,
and you know, she's so important to everything where everything
is built around her. But also sometimes it's kind of
like the boring answer to say the main character, so
for this kind of question. So I also really like Fiss,
Who's this who's one of the villains of this book.
She's this sentient cloud who builds gadgets, who's also like
(09:54):
a crime boss type thing, and that's very like, kind
of weird and unique. And what I like about her
is the fact that, like a lot of stories will
have aliens be basically just like humans with like different
ears or something, or like green skin or something like that.
But I try to have some aliens that are human
like and some aliens that are very much not And
(10:16):
feis being a.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Floating cloud who can talk is very much.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Not a human and I, you know, had a lot
of fun with like having her talk in a way
that makes sense, but still like just like feels kind
of off, where she like is slightly more formal, but
uses like formal like words and phrases in context that
wouldn't really exactly fit. So she's not like specifically overly formal,
(10:43):
just kind of has a slightly off feeling that you
can't quite place. And that was really fun, Whereas with Laura,
it's a lot more stressful to be writing like for
Laura because like, I really have to get that perfect
because the story is so much leaning on or as characterization.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And if rolls apart could be turned into a blockbuster movie,
who would play the role of Laura and why?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So I've thought about this a lot, and you know,
when it comes to like books versus movies versus TV shows,
if you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Know, which is another option.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
There are some things that like work better as a
book versus a movie, and one of those things is
that you have to fill in the blanks with your imagination.
And when I was writing for Laura, when I really
tried to utilize this, and I describe her very her
physical traits, not very much at all, right, I like
(11:39):
talk about what clothes she was wearing.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
She has, Like in the cove right here, you can
see she has like this reddish hair.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But in the first few pages it says that she
dyed her hair red, so you don't even know her
natural hair color. And I really did that so that
anybody reading it will fill in the blanks with how
she looks with whatever they imagine.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I don't say how tall she.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is, for example, or you know what her skin tone is,
anything like that, so that anybody who's reading it could
really put themselves in those shoes. And I feel like
if I were to make it into a movie, I
would have to make decisions about like what she looks
like in a way that I would rather readers be
able to put themselves in the shoes of the hero here.
(12:24):
That's and I really try to do that with the character,
because I try to make her as relatable as possible.
I mean, even though she has like a lot of
unique traits about like she like is obsessed with star
Trek and has memorized the entirety of star Trek, which
is not something that most people have done, but in
terms of her appearance and her goals are very relatable to.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The everyday person.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So I kind of want it to be anybody can
put their themselves in those shoes and can't really do
that with a movie.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's the wonderful thing about books, right, You use your
imagination to create characters, to see how they look. You
kind of come up with how they look in your mind, right,
So that's that's the wonderful thing about books. You know.
On her journey, of course, she has villains and a
lot of barriers that she goes through, So talk to
us someone with the barriers that she goes through on
this journey and some of the villains as well.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, so there's quite a few villains that are introduced.
So there's the Arbeleste, which is this group of essentially
guards who have clamshell heads and these big laser gauntlet
glove things that are like chasing her down the other
and there's like so those are kind of one group
(13:30):
of villains. There's Fie, who's this kind of crime lord
person I mentioned, who's a cloud that she gets involved
with kind of coincidentally. There's Dwinn, who's someone who helps
her but Dwyn is kind of fits the role of
the guide character usually see in these stories where like
you know in Star Wars right when they in Star
Wars episode four when he when Luke meets Obi Wan Kenobi,
(13:53):
who like is like the person who teaches him about everything,
Laura meets Dwinn, but Dwyn is actually not very knowledgeab
about anything and just kind of it's like, let's just
do the thing we have to do and don't ask
me any questions. So there's kind of an informational obstacle
of she doesn't really know what's going on and has
to figure it out, as well as the physical obstacles
(14:13):
of these of these two kind of groups of antagonists
that are kind of pushing her on either side, and
both of those kind of play into her own kind
of anxieties about like she's she overthinks things a lot,
and having no information at all makes the problem of
overthinking really much worse. And that's kind of like really
(14:35):
her core flaw in this first book, where she is
overthinking everything and has to like figure out what is
the what information she can trust and what information is
useful and what things.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
She just has to accept that she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Know quite yet very exciting and ian. You know, I
created my platform to inspire to uplift to you really
showcase that anything is possible if you have a dream
and a vision. So for any readers or people that
you know how to create a vision out there but
are afraid to take that leap of faith like you did,
what would you say to inspire them to kind of
(15:12):
you know, get their content out there and really to
show the world what they have.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, So you can really publish your book through a
lot of different places for free, like on Amazon, on
ingram Spark, which is where all of the local bookstores
get their stock.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you can you know, kind of go online and
do those things.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
If you're interested in publishing books, if you're interested in
you know, publishing other things, then there are lots of
ways to do that. And you know, you can just
try to like meet people and make connections and it's
just worth like the effort because you know, you're only
going to be able to publish your first book once
and that might be a big step. But if you
want to you know, write lots of books, you have
(15:52):
to start with one and then kind of move from there.
It's really so there's really nothing, no reason to not
do this one, and then after that you can work
on the next one.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And speaking about publishing more books, are there more books
in your future?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I you know, this is the first of a series,
and you know it ends with you know, clearly another
book being required to conclude the story, maybe even more
than that. So I've written many many drafts of other books,
some in this series, some not, and I definitely intend
to kind of keep moving forward with that and you know,
(16:32):
not letting anything like that kind of stop me again.
Now that I've proven that I can release a book
and get it out there and get it into.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
People's hands, very nice and Ian for our viewers, I
wanted to learn more about your journey and keep up
with your projects. Where can they do so?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, So the book is available on Amazon. If you
just search my name or worlds apart, you should be
able to find that. And then I also have a
website which is just Ianfanslow dot com. So that's just
my name dot com and there you can sign up
for a mailing list where I can update you with
our progress on things, and it also has links to
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All my social media.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's posting about that kind of stuff as well, so
you know, both of those places are the great places.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
To find very nice. We're going to link that information
for viewers to see. And Ian, thank you so much
for being on the show today. Congratulations on such a
great first book, and we're excited to see what else
is in store for you.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Thank you so much, all right, see you.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
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