It all started on Facebook...
This was our first cover ever!
This is one of the most amazing stories of our lives.
We'd met each other through a mutual friend on facebook more than two years ago. We shared the same interests - more or less - and had the pretty much the same kind of dark sense of humor. So basically, we hit it off quite fabulously and added each other to our profiles, high fived at every mutual respect, or lack thereof, for current issues and personal affairs until one fine day, one of us came up with this brilliant exercise. The 'one' being Shamila - inboxed about 30 ladies with the intent of starting a 'I write the first line and you all join in and let's make a story!' event.
Truth be told, no one was really interested and thought it to be rather boring. To make up for that, it became more of a 'who can write the craziest line.' And as expected, each line was taken to bizarre places where even Superman would wonder - is this even possible? After the few weeks and numerous face palms, it quietened down till something wonderful happened.
One of the girls wrote a single line about the heroine of the story landing in the bedroom of an unknown person. That sparked a fire in one of our brains. That brain, in this case was Humeira's. A whole paragraph was written that day just to make this turn happen in the story. And it did. And although, one by one, everyone else had stopped writing (and reading) the posts, we both stuck to it. Turn by turn, we continued. So much so that we had two full pages of the tale. We then decided to close that session and start a new one including just us and two other friends who had proved themselves to be loyal readers of everything that we had written so far.
And so we wrote and we wrote. Chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter. While Humzy and T-Man read it and critiqued it. We had moved to email by then since it felt more personal and private. This delicious ritual of writing continued for two whole years. What had started as an idle facebook fluke became a full fledged novel boasting of two hefty parts (read BOOKS!).
AOIFE & DEMON is now a reality - a fantasy fiction trilogy with first two books already out and available in the market. We are currently working on the third and final book.
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We'd met each other through a mutual friend on facebook more than two years ago. We shared the same interests - more or less - and had the pretty much the same kind of dark sense of humor. So basically, we hit it off quite fabulously and added each other to our profiles, high fived at every mutual respect, or lack thereof, for current issues and personal affairs until one fine day, one of us came up with this brilliant exercise. The 'one' being Shamila - inboxed about 30 ladies with the intent of starting a 'I write the first line and you all join in and let's make a story!' event.
Truth be told, no one was really interested and thought it to be rather boring. To make up for that, it became more of a 'who can write the craziest line.' And as expected, each line was taken to bizarre places where even Superman would wonder - is this even possible? After the few weeks and numerous face palms, it quietened down till something wonderful happened.
One of the girls wrote a single line about the heroine of the story landing in the bedroom of an unknown person. That sparked a fire in one of our brains. That brain, in this case was Humeira's. A whole paragraph was written that day just to make this turn happen in the story. And it did. And although, one by one, everyone else had stopped writing (and reading) the posts, we both stuck to it. Turn by turn, we continued. So much so that we had two full pages of the tale. We then decided to close that session and start a new one including just us and two other friends who had proved themselves to be loyal readers of everything that we had written so far.
And so we wrote and we wrote. Chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter. While Humzy and T-Man read it and critiqued it. We had moved to email by then since it felt more personal and private. This delicious ritual of writing continued for two whole years. What had started as an idle facebook fluke became a full fledged novel boasting of two hefty parts (read BOOKS!).
AOIFE & DEMON is now a reality - a fantasy fiction trilogy with first two books already out and available in the market. We are currently working on the third and final book.
Join Aoife & Demon on Facebook