The Writer's View: Perrin Pring

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The Writer's View

Hi Judy. Thanks for having me and supporting The Ryo Myth trilogy! You asked me to describe my writing space, as well as the view from my window. These two questions are a bit difficult to answer succinctly as I don’t have just one writing space. I move fairly frequently. In fact over the course of writing the three books of The Ryo Myths, I lived in Colorado, Hawaii, Montana and California. For a while I owned a house in Montana, and I’ve included a view of the office I used. As you can see, it was enjoyed by more than just me. I had a painting by a friend of mine, Jill Tisdale, in that office as well. I always imagine alien landscapes when I look at that particular painting, so I put it in my office. I like to stare at it when I hit a bit of writer’s block. Since I’m a sci-fi writer, Jill’s painting usually gets my creative juices going.

I also greatly enjoy writing in coffee shops. You can see me in the next picture in Cold Smoke, a coffee shop in Bozeman, re-reading my second book, Tomorrow is Too Late, in order to better to edit my third book, The Degrees of Destiny. I hate editing, and I’m unhappy with having to do it in that picture. I do have a massive cup of coffee there though, so I’m not totally sad. I like being around people when I write. Writing is so solitary that spending a day in a room by myself usually just gives me cabin fever. Just seeing other people helps me stay grounded.

In terms of the views from my windows, while I was in Hawaii, I lived at 7,000 ft on Maui. I’ve accepted I’ll never have another view like that for as long as I live, and I think you will probably agree with me. When it was cloudy, I was above the clouds. When it was clear I could see the North and South shores.

Now, I live near the base of a pretty sweet waterfall, so when it’s nice I tend to work on the picnic table outside my house. As you can see, looking up from my street is a pretty nice view. In the spring the falls roar, and you can lose yourself in their thunder.

My environment greatly affects my writing, and I like to vary it. Sometimes I sit when I write, sometimes I stand. Sometimes I write at my kitchen table, sometimes I go to a crowded coffee shop and sometimes I find a shady tree and park myself under it.

Thanks for having me!

Filion felt safe in his role as a Dream Searcher. He was paid to venture into other’s dreams and exert influence over individuals whom he would never meet in the flesh.

But that was until he received The Summoning. Filion has been called to track down and protect Ryo, the last of the Chozen. She is the only hope of preventing a tide of evil driven by the Afortiori and the prospect of universal slavery if they aren’t stopped.

Time is ticking and Filion has no idea of how to find Ryo let alone how to protect her, yet destinies of planets rest in her hands. Enlisting the help of a rag-tag band of mercenaries, Filion will set out to search the wastes for Ryo. Together they will confront an evil whose power they just might have fatally underestimated.

I was a natural flier, I could take a punch, and I was smarter than most. Within five years I was a full-fledged pilot. On my last assignment, I was Master Pilot Eri Everfar, commanding pilot of a class B Federal war ship, the Seeker, and that’s where I met him, Drakier Lu…

Filion and his new friends have escaped Bok and are stuck in an asteroid field that isn’t supposed to exist. They’ve almost run out of fuel, their water supply is seriously depleted, all of their food has been destroyed, and the girl they’d just risked everything to save, Ryo, is dead.

Captain Eri’s former lover, Drakier Lu, has been promoted to Master Commander of the entire Federal Fleet, and his assignment is to find and capture the Dark Horse. Captain Eri has been identified as a Tiori, and she and her associates have just become the Federation’s most wanted. Things aren’t what they seem though, and the line between good and evil blurs as the players’ true motivations come to light.

Filion and the crew return, traveling the galaxy and dodging the Federation and the Tioris, all the while searching for a rogue planet that may or may not be harboring the one person who can save them all…

When I was on Lamu, I inhaled an Afortiori's vileness. That blackness will be what allows me to win. I will use their own evil against them. Because of this I am tainted. I am but a degree different from what I fight, but in that degree, hangs the balance between universal slavery and Free Will.

Having fled from Lamu only moments before its destruction, Filion and his friends find themselves hiding in the shadows as the Federation and the Afortiori mobilize against their worst enemy, The Etulosba and its crew. The Etulosba, Ryo, plans for her final battle. She was engineered to fight for Free Will, but to win that war, she will have to become what no Chozen was meant to be - an Afortiori. Caught in Ryo's wake, Captain Eri is torn between leading her crew and confronting Drakier Lu, her former lover and torturer. Will she be able to overcome what he did to her, or will she fail, thereby becoming what he made her and letting down Ryo, her crew, and ultimately, the universe? Filion and the crew return in the final installment of The Ryo Myths. Join them as they begin a journey that not all of them will survive.

Enjoy an excerpt from The Degrees of Destiny:

Initially, she’d thought the energy transfer had been temporary. Then she’d tortured Teeive instead of killing him, and now she realized the true cost of what she’d done. Some of his energy lived on inside of her. She hadn’t foreseen that. Inhaling Teeive’s energy had been like filling a suitcase with sand. She’d dumped out most of the sand, but grains of it remained, and they were expanding. She could feel the cold, calculating, psychopathic tendrils of Afortiori vile spreading and threatening to overtake her body. It wasn’t a battle she was sure she could win, but it might be what won her the war.

“I held that evil inside of me,” Ryo continued. “It powered me. I became high on its force. Then it left but not all of it. Some of it still lives within me.” She stood and faced Wiq. “I cannot fight this war without it.” She stood and faced Wiq. “I cannot fight this war without it. That blackness will be what allows me to win. I will use their own evil against them. Because of this I am tainted. I am but a degree different from what I fight, but in that degree, hangs the balance between universal slavery and Free Will. You and I, we have fought over Free Will, we have fought for Free Will, but we have never had Free Will. Captain Eri must exercise her Free Will because to me, she is everything that those words mean. If she does that, I can stay on the side of the right. I can fight this blackness and use it to save her. If she denies it though, or if she dies…”

Ryo looked at her hands. They flashed and became translucent. Wiq could see Ryo’s veins. As Wiq watched, a shadow spread through Ryo’s blood, darkening it to black.

“This vileness inside of me is not static. It pushes. It grows. I fight it, but I’m fighting on all fronts. She is my hope. She is my faith. She is what keeps this blackness at bay. She must not fail, or we all die.”

About the Author:

Perrin is the author of The Ryo Myths, a sci-fi/fantasy trilogy that has been heralded to engage both nerds and non-nerds alike. Check out her books on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. When not writing, Perrin enjoys drinking coffee and swimming, although usually not at the same time.

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