{"id":14445,"date":"2021-10-10T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:08:38","slug":"blog-tour-city-of-shattered-light-by-claire-winn-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-city-of-shattered-light-by-claire-winn-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn (Interview!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrandbeyondtours.com\/2021\/09\/14\/tour-schedule-city-of-shattered-light-by-claire-winn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/city-of-shattered-light-tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn (Interview!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for CITY OF SHATTERED LIGHT! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an interview with Claire Winn to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I&#8217;m so excited to for you to find out more about it!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/city-of-shattered-light-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn (Interview!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn (Interview!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>City of Shattered Light<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/claire-winn\/\">Claire Winn<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  October 19, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/flux\/\">Flux<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/science-fiction\/\">Science Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 400 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53962017-city-of-shattered-light\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/clairewinn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atomic_Pixie\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/clairewinnauthor\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/20400836.Claire_Winn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/clairewinnauthor\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@clairewinnauthor\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">TikTok<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.<br \/>\nAs heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister\u2019s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming\u2014including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister\u2019s digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. hunting her, Asa\u2019s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem.<br \/>\nGun-slinging smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem\u2019s underworld hierarchy. A runaway rich girl is exactly the bounty Riven needs\u2014until a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa\u2019s wake, causing a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. To get the payout for Asa and save Requiem from the monster in its circuits, Riven must team up with her captive.<br \/>\nRiven breaks skulls the way Asa breaks circuits, but their opponent is unlike anything they\u2019ve ever seen. The A.I. exploits the girls\u2019 darkest memories and deepest secrets, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance they\u2019re both depending on. As one of Requiem\u2019s 154-hour nights grows darker, the girls must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other before Riven\u2019s city and Asa\u2019s sister are snuffed out forever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-10-10T10:00:13+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for CITY OF SHATTERED LIGHT! I'm so excited because today I have an interview with Claire Winn to share with you! 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Where would you go to eat, hang out, relax, etc.?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m pretty sure I wouldn\u2019t survive a day with them! Hah. I did create Requiem as a place I\u2019d love to explore (but maybe only if accompanied by someone as dangerous as the city itself). I\u2019m fascinated by the future of entertainment and technology, so visiting VR dens and nightclubs in the year 2188 would be exciting. One of my favorite locations on Requiem is Olympus, home of gravity-shifting gladiatorial pits. Which might be a bit intense.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If\u00a0Asa and Riven\u00a0were\u00a0to hang out with characters from other books, who would they be and why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asa and Iseult from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truthwitch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would probably be buddies, since they\u2019re both voices of reason, and they\u2019re both shy nerds who are pulled unwittingly into dangerous situations. Riven would get into trouble with Alyssa from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crownchasers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and would have a mostly-friendly rivalry with Jesper from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six of Crows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If there was one fictional place you could travel to for a day, where would it be and why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ooh, tough call. I love Toussaint from the Witcher 3 (the video game)\u2014a beautiful, idyllic fantasy kingdom teeming with intelligent and terrifying monsters. Other faves are Omega from Mass Effect (seedy, vibrant mining colony), Skyhold from Dragon Age: Inquisition (the home-base castle for your warrior found-family), and Camorr from the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lies of Locke Lamora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (mysterious, intricate city full of nooks and crannies).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If you buried a time\u00a0capsule with three items inside, what three items would you choose and\u00a0why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is tough, because so many things worth preserving are digital now. Maybe the first LARP foam sword I ever built\u2014black and silver with runes, which I was pretty proud of at the time\u2014as a relic of a hobby that will undoubtedly have changed in the future as gaming evolves. Also, printouts of meaningful text\/DM conversations over the years, since I think so much data of this kind will eventually be lost, and it\u2019s always interesting to stumble across deeply personal journal entries from the past. And I\u2019d also probably include a copy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City of Shattered Light<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, if only so people in the future can make buggy eyes at my probably-totally-inaccurate vision of their world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was your favorite bit of research you ended up not using?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Alpha Centauri (where most of CoSL takes place) is the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">closest <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">star-system to Earth, the one with the most potential habitable exoplanets is the Trappist system. Some of these planets probably contain more liquid water than Earth. It\u2019s interesting to think about what human civilization might look like if we could reliably (and quickly) transport living humans to faraway planets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, while some research about EMPs made it into CoSL, what doesn\u2019t come up is the major potential of EMPs for the future of warfare. Since electrical grids are increasingly important to societal function, they\u2019re becoming a prime target. Some countries already have EMP weapons capable of a country-wide attack, and it has some pretty big implications for international relations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is your favorite quote, scene, or moment from\u00a0<\/b><b><i>City of Shattered Light<\/i><\/b><b>?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hard to pick a favorite! There\u2019s a few scenes I love, but among the first scenes I dreamed up was when Asa and Riven are temporarily and reluctantly allied\u2014and they\u2019re accosted by muggers in an abandoned subway. Riven&#8217;s revolvers are loaded differently\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verdugo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is her \u201cexecutioner\u201d with live rounds, and her left-hand gun, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackjack<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, contains a roulette of stun-rounds and mechanical disruptor bullets. So when Riven gets the upper hand, she gives their would-be attacker the option of playing his odds and possibly surviving one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackjack<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s bullets. The scene\u2019s a little brutal and shows what Riven is capable of\u2014and confirms that Asa is in far over her head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite sequence in the story is near the midpoint\u2014the nightclub heist. I don\u2019t want to go into too much detail here, but there\u2019s colossal mistakes, awkward flirting, unexpected action sequences, and some big revelations about the main villain\u2019s abilities and aims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrandbeyondtours.com\/2021\/09\/14\/tour-schedule-city-of-shattered-light-by-claire-winn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Follow-the-Tour-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/About-the-Author-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Claire Winn<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/claire-winn-author-pic-271x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Claire Winn spends her time immersed in other worlds\u2014through LARP, video games, books, nerd conventions, and her own stories. Since graduating from Northwestern University, she\u2019s worked as a legal writer and freelance editor. Aside from writing, she builds cosplay props and armor, tears up dance floors, and battles with boffer swords. City of Shattered Light is her first novel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clairewinn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atomic_Pixie\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/clairewinnauthor\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/20400836.Claire_Winn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/clairewinnauthor\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@clairewinnauthor\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">TikTok<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider.png 645w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/V3-Fall-2021-divider-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Questions-and-Answers-Fall-2021-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>City of Shattered Light<\/em>? Have you added it to your tbr yet? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-Fall-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"881\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for CITY OF SHATTERED LIGHT! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an interview with Claire Winn to share with you! 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