Retrieved on March 25, 2021. “I decided to leave music behind and pursue writing exclusively” What inspired you to write the Empirium Trilogy?. Retrieved on March 25, 2021. “I got the idea for the Empirium Trilogy right after high school.” Retrieved on March 25, 2021. “I live in central New Jersey.” Meet Claire Legrand, author of Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy #1) (Video). Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life (2015).The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister (2014).

Queen of the Blazing Throne (2020) - novella, ebook, limited release.

Lightbringer (Sourcebooks Fire, October 13 2020).

Kingsbane (Sourcebooks Fire, May 21 2019).

Furyborn (Sourcebooks Fire, May 22 2018).

Homecoming (2014) - short story epilogue.

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (2012).

Tweleve years after the trilogy's conception, it eventually found a home with Sourcebooks Fire. Once Furyborn was ready, Legrand's agent sent out a partial submission to various publishing houses. She would continue to write other stories while simultanously working on The Empirium Trilogy whenever she had free time. Cavendish would become her debut novel, released in 2012. After completing the draft for The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, she sent out query letters, and was able to find an agent. She decided to postpone work on The Empirium Trilogy in favor of a different story that might be better able to land her an agent. However, the original version of Furyborn was too long and not polished enough to be able to sell. Once it was finished, she sent out query letters to various agents who might help her get this story published. Throughout her college career, Legrand continued to work on the first draft of Furyborn. She would end up graduating from the University of North Texas with an undergraduate degree in English literature and a graduate degree in library science. She took two years of musical studies before deciding to pursue a career in writing. Īt that point, however, Legrand was already planning to become a professional orchestral trumpet player. This women would become the character Rielle, with the world she lived in growing around her. The more Legrand asked herself questions about the women- why she was feeling certain emotions, who her loved ones and ememies were, and so on- the more a story surrounding her began to develop. During a trip back home, Legrand was listening to the soundtrack for Percy Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when she got a vision of a young women surrounded by a field of fire. Īfter graduating from high school, Legrand got the idea for The Empirium Trilogy. She was raised in Irving, Texas, and currently resides in central New Jersey.

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