What lessons did you learn from publishing your first novel that carried over to Deadlock Rebels? Thankfully, they liked them, because as soon as I started writing within the world, I didn’t want to leave! The publisher contacted my agent about potentially working on the project, at which point I drafted a couple of sample chapters. I’d like to think there was some strange, Blizzard-related karma stemming from how much StarCraft and Diablo II I played back in the day, but like most things in publishing, it was a little bit of luck and a little bit of work. How’d you end up in the gaming sphere writing an Overwatch novel?
I was incredibly lucky to have an enthusiastic and supportive publishing team for it, as well as a bunch of writer friends to have my back, because publishing your first book can definitely be an emotional rollercoaster! Well, I wrote for a long time before I ever finished a whole novel, to start-I can remember writing as early as sixth grade! It was my second finished manuscript (amongst many, many unfinished ones) that became Gunslinger Girl, my debut. What did the path to becoming an author look like for you? What was publishing your first novel like? We caught up with Lyndsay Ely to discuss the art of novel writing, what it was like to work in tandem with the Overwatch narrative team, and how she captured the voices of our favorite Deadlock rebels. The novel is written by author Lyndsay Ely, who was well-equipped with a wealth of futuristic Western knowledge from the publication of her first novel, Gunslinger Girl, a tale about a bold heroine who takes on “tomorrow’s West.” Wielding this genre-bending expertise, she composed a tale about daring heists, fast money, dangerous alliances, and how the bonds of brotherhood outweigh the burdens of blood. Elizabeth Caledonia Ashe, an opportunistic young thief recently disinherited from her family’s fortune, teams up with local delinquent Jesse McCree and her omnic butler, B.O.B., for a cavalcade of capers. The young upstarts of the Deadlock Gang might not be the heroes the future-possible world of Overwatch needs, but they’re here, regardless, in all of their riotous gunslinging glory.ĭeadlock Rebels is a novel set in the American Southwest of Overwatch during the years of turmoil that followed the Omnic Crisis that explores the founding of the notorious Deadlock Gang. In the wake of the calamitous Omnic Crisis, the world is desperate for heroes more than ever.
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