My most recent book is Mordizan, book two of The Wraithwood Trilogy. It’s a contemporary YA fantasy featuring Arthurian legend, shadow magic, grand libraries, dark dungeons, secret passageways, and espionage.
Do you have a favorite character?
My favorite character in this book is the protagonist, Brinnie, a quiet bookworm who is thrust into a world of magic, court intrigue, battle, and ominous new depths to her own power. I think a lot of fellow readers can relate to her and wonder how we would handle going from reading about legends to suddenly being in one.
Did you try the traditional route to publishing, i.e. querying agents/publishers?
I’ve gone the traditional publishing route. I signed with an agent, who negotiated my contracts with my four most recent publishers, although I’m currently unagented after she retired. Not looking forward to the query trenches again, haha.
How long before you got your offer of representation/your first contract? Was it for your first novel?
I went to college for a degree in Professional Writing. At the beginning of my junior year, I was interning for a literary agency and one of the agents fell in love with the first book in the Wraithwood trilogy and offered to represent me. It took about a year to land a contract, and it wasn’t for the original book. However, Wraithwood did end up being contracted a while later. Today, about three and a half years after first being signed with an agent, I have ten books published or under contract.
What factors influenced your decision to go with a particular agent or publisher?
For agents, what connections do they have? Who have they sold to? For publishers, what is their distribution? Do they have a track record of integrity? Do they release quality books? I’ve turned down some contracts from publishers I didn’t feel comfortable with. I’d rather wait and/or not publish a book at all than release something I don’t feel proud of.
Are you currently under a traditional publishing contract for future books or do you have manuscripts that you will self-publish? Are you doing both?
For now, I’m sticking with the traditional route. I have two more books after Mordizan contracted for 2022, as well as two re-releases this fall that were acquired by a new publisher. After that, I have three more releases in 2023, one of which is the third and final book in The Wraithwood Trilogy. After that, we’re back to the query trenches looking for a new agent!
Do you belong to a critique group? Have they helped improve your writing?
This is kind of a funny answer. I do have a critique group, but a lot of my books have been published before they have a chance to read them. There just isn’t time! My deadlines come up too fast. (Don’t worry though, the publishers put everything through plenty of edits and proofreads.) I love them and have improved because of their feedback, and they’re always there to encourage me.
What is your writing process? Do you listen to music or do you like silence?
I always listen to music, and I have specific playlists or genres I associate with certain books. Since I work full time, I write whenever I get the chance, usually in short spurts here and there.
Besides Amazon, are there any other sites where your books are for sale?
Definitely! You can find my books pretty much anywhere books are sold—Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, Target, Walmart, Waterstones, Books-a-Million…and usually if you ask your local indie store or your library, they can order it for you.
Besides writing, do you have any other passions?
I love reading, of course. Does my crazy cat Kookoo count as a passion? I also love nerding out about pop culture, hanging out with equally nerdy friends, and playing TTRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons.
Mordizan
Alyssa Roat
(The Wraithwood Trilogy, #2)
Publication date: March 15th 2022
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
The bane of Mordred, the son of Mordizan, and a millennia-old prophecy—together they may provide what Brinnie needs to defeat the world of magic’s greatest threat.
More than a year has passed since Brinnie left Wraithwood, never expecting to see it again. But when Mordred captures her sister, she is thrust back into the world of magic. She flees to Wraithwood, where she learns of a prophecy located in the dark wizard capital of Mordizan that reveals the identity of “Mordred’s bane,” something that could destroy Mordred for good.
Brinnie agrees to a rendezvous with Mordred to exchange herself for her sister, going undercover at Mordizan as a spy to find the prophecy and Mordred’s bane. There, she weaves a complicated web of secrets, lies, and tenuous friendships. She makes an unexpected ally in Marcus Vorath, son of the Master of Mordizan, who fears the implications of Mordred’s growing power. But in Mordizan, friends and foes may be one and the same.
In the midst of court intrigue, battle, ominous new depths to her power, and searching for Mordred’s bane, Brinnie struggles to draw the lines. How far is she willing to go to destroy Mordred? And how much of herself is she willing to give up along the way?
Author Bio:
Alyssa Roat grew up in Tucson, Arizona, but her heart is in Great Britain. She has worked in a wide variety of roles within the publishing industry as an agent, editor, writer, and publicist. With 250+ bylines and 9+ books under contract in genres ranging from YA chat fiction to fantasy to sweet adult romance, you could say she dabbles in a bit of everything. Her name is a pun, which means you can learn more about her at www.alyssawrote.com or on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as @alyssawrote.
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