February 22, 2021
When We Were Human Post One
Week 8, Day 1 – When We Were Human
Genre: Young Adult Post-Apocalyptic
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Cover Design: Kate L. Mary (With the help of Kate Sanford)
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“They came four years ago. Invaded our planet, rounded us up, decimated the human race. We fought back, and some even say we won, but they’re wrong. The invaders took everything from us. Our family. Our hope. Our humanity. We won the war, but there are no humans left. Only monsters who will do anything to survive. Some look human and some don’t, but they are all the same.”
What can you tell us about the writing and publishing of When We Were Human?
I think this might be the book that took me the longest to write. It was released in early August of 2015, but I started writing it more than a year before that. With so many other things going on – finishing the Broken World Series and getting a book deal for the College of Charleston series – I had to put this one aside several times so I could reach a deadline. I always came back to it, though, and I was determined to finally get it done.
Right away this book had a special place in my heart. Maybe it’s because it took me so long to write, or maybe it was the slow build of the world and characters. I don’t know, but I just had a good feeling about it, which is why I entered it into several contests.
On October 8, 2015 I found out that When We Were Human won the Silver Medal in the 2015 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction.
Of course, I was beyond thrilled. This was my first award and getting that recognition was amazing and it inspired me to enter it in another contest. Almost a year later, in September of 2016, I got the news that When We Were Human had won a Gold Medal in the 2016 Readers’ Favorite Awards for Young Adult Science Fiction.
Even though I liked some of my other characters and books that I’d created around this time much better than When We Were Human, for years I told people that this was my best book because I felt it had something extra to it that a lot of the others didn’t. I still think that, but I’ve since written other books that I feel have more depth than this one.
