Years ago (and still applies today), the experts were telling fiction writers that in order to really know their main character, they must come up with a character profile sheet for them and definitely applies to all your characters as well. This is a good practice because once you know all the ins and outs of all your characters, the book flows better and allows the author to get inside the head of each of their characters.
We decided to ask authors if they would like to come up with a character sketch of their main character, throwing in a few unique questions to make it really fun!
Today we have Lee Mavin stopping by on his book tour with a character sketch of his main character, Outis Everrett of The Wars Between. Enjoy!
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Learn more about Outis Everrett!
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Name of Character: Outis Everrett
Age: 23
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Birthplace: Asalandia
Marital Status: single
Children: none
Place of Residence: the outskirts of Asalandia
Description of Home: a small shack filled with books, berries and fruit from the nearby market and unfinished poetry,
Dominant Character Trait: Outis is constantly creating poems in his head based on his surroundings, who he is talking to and how he is feeling
Best Friend: Gwenia Xiachung, the Kastanarian outcast.
Enemies and Why: He doesn’t believe in enemies
Temperament: usually calm, quiet and lost in his thoughts
Ambition: To have his poetry read by everyone
Educational Background: He failed warrior school and feels ashamed. He did well in every history and literature exam but failed every physical exam.
Philosophy of Life: to put down the sword and pick the pen
Bad Habits: overthinking and worrying
Talents: the ability to create a poem out of everything he sees and everyone he meets
Hobby or Hobbies: reading and writing poetry and daydreaming
Why is Character Likeable? He finds the strengths and good in every one
Favorite Pig Out Food: berries and fruit
Character Mini-Interview:
Every New Year’s I resolve to: write a hundred poems
Nobody knows I am: no warrior. I have shamed my family name and dwell in my shadowy room, pondering life and creating rhymes.
I wish: there were peace and everyone would learn to get to know each other before taking up arms
The worse part of my life is: failing the warrior exams
I want to teach my children that: there is no need for weapons
A good time for me is: writing poetry by the sea, under the sun.
The worse advice my father gave me is: to shoot a Kastarian, you must aim for the back of their head.
When I feel sorry for myself: I live a world that doesn’t value me
My friends like me because: I have few friends, though my mother often says she loves me and reads my poetry over dinner
My major accomplishment is: Writing the poem that changed the world
My most humbling experience was: Meeting the King of Asalandia, the President of Kastanair and the love of my life: Gwenia Xiachung.
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Learn more about Lee Mavin!
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Lee J Mavin is the author of 11 books. He is also a teacher and father. He has a Masters in Creative Writing and am solely focused on writing fiction (fantasy and horror) and poetry. He is now in collaboration the illustrator Karolina Piotrowski, a Polish artist who has brought many stories to life. He has worked and studied in China and Japan and studied with Dr Xiaohuan Zhao (a master of Chinese poetry) to complete his book Li Bai’s Shadow, at the University of Sydney. He has two children who are both avid readers, so he is always in the loop with trends in children’s fiction. He is married and lives in Sydney, where he teaches English.
His latest book is the YA fantasy, The Wars Between.
Visit his website at leejmavin.com.
Connect with him on social media at:
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Inside the Book
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Outis Everrett, the disappointment of his family, a measly poet, is suddenly thrusted into an epic adventure across the sea, with the King’s blessing. His poem, the poem that somehow won the first annual Asalandian poetry competition, was meant to be taken across the seas, to the enemy island of Kastanair, there, it would be read by the President of Kastanair, the newly elected and very progressive, Penelope Chinwa and she was supposed stop the war after reading those so special words.
So Outis set sail aboard the Golden ship, guided and protected by the Knights of Sunrise and their adventures began. The Knights are led by Bartholemew Aries, the most famous soldier in Asalandia, though when their ship drifts off course to the mysterious island of Aquos Atalantious, the Princess of the island soon lures him to stay. So, the Knights of Sunrise become distracted by the beauties of this foreign island. After failing to find the prince, who had been taken by a monstrous octopus, the Golden ship sails onto Kastanair, without its leader, who had fallen in love with the Princess. They then sail to Syanthia, where the worlds’ meat was produced. There they meet, the young Kastanairian, Gwenia Xiachung, an enthusiastic vegan on a mission to stop everyone eating meat. Outis is thrown into a pig saving mission with Gwenia and is intrigued by the young girl. After saving the pigs and convincing the head of meat production to change his ways with a beautiful poem about animal empathy, Gwenia falls in love with Outis. She joins him and the Knights of Sunrise on the voyage to back to her country, Kastanair. Once they finally reach the shores of Kastanair, they are attacked on the shores by a small army, led by Caslian Jesper, the tough captain who worked his soldiers to exhaustion. The Knights, Outis and Gwenia are rescued by Nastab and his band of terrorists who take them on horseback through Kastanair to Mount Xian. Nastab and his men come from a rebel group who had been dwelling on the plateau of Mount Xian, plotting to overthrow the government of Kastanair. However, their leader, who had driven their group to crimes and violence, was hoarding their food and treasure.
Caslian Jesper follows the terrorists to Mount Xian, in pursuit of two of his enemies at once, the terrorists and the Asalandians. Outis and Gwenia are suddenly taken off their horses by huge hawks, who fly them up Mount Xian, to a cave opening. There Gwenia and Outis meet The Tall Man, a strange man with huge black eyes who has no name. He takes them into the cave, and they fall more tall people. There they learn that the tall people had been in the caves for hundreds of years and they care not for treasures of war. The tall man collects water from an underground stream and fruits from the cave roofs and they take Outis and Gwenia up to the top of the mountain. There they find Caslian’s army had managed to climb to the top of the mountain in attempt to attack but they were too drained to fight so the tall man shared his fruit with them. Both sides rested as Outis read a poem to the leader of the terrorists.
Outis and Gwenia are then taken to the capital, by an eclectic group including Nastab, The Tall Man and the Knights of Sunrise, they journey through the planes of Kastanair where they are attacked by wolves. The Knights and Nastab fight the wolves off valiantly and they continue. When they finally reach the capital Outis reads his poem to the President, but it is not the words of his poem alone that convince her to stop the war, it is the group he brings with him, a group of once enemies, who had come together with the same goal.
╰┈➤Book Details
- Genre: YA Fantasy
- Language:English
- Pages: 300
To find out how to purchase this book, visit the author’s website at leejmavin.com.