interview with rose everille
- Grace Johnson
- Apr 24
- 5 min read
Joining us today for an epic interview is Rose Everille, author of "The Fate of the Glowblooded"!
Rose, thanks so much for joining us today! Let’s jump right in—introduce yourself + share three fun, lesser-known facts about yourself!
Hi, I’m so excited to be here! I’m Rose Everille, I’m an artist and a writer of many things, great and small. Three fun facts about me: I love historical costuming, and it works its way into almost all my writing, I have the skills to participate in longsword tournaments (and occasionally do), and I have never seen Shrek or The Lion King.
You’re featured in Of Storm & Sea with your story, “The Fate of the Glowblooded”. Could you tell us a little bit about it and what inspired it?
The Fate of the Glowblooded is a coming of age story about a cabin boy who discovers he’s part of an ancient kind who could communicate with dragons, which puts him at odds with his crew, including his father, the captain. This story was born just before my first year of college, and I spent my breaks in first semester writing and editing it. The placeholder title was Project Glowstick, which started as a joke on the main character’s bioluminescence. (In my head, I often still call it that)
My initial spark of inspiration was that I wanted to write a story with dragons in it. In all my years of writing fantasy, not a single dragon, so it was high time. I also love reading nautical stories, and years and years ago I had an idea about bioluminescent sea dragons whose glow is harvested and used. That story never came together, so I recycled my favorite parts into this story instead. I also took a lot of inspiration from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. I read it twice as a teenager (I don’t like it that much, I was just bored and had it as an audiobook) and reading about the whaling industry definitely inspired me to create the dragons the way I did.
I love your worldbuilding and fantasy creatures in this story! Do you have a specific process or source of inspiration for coming up with your worlds and creatures?
I am blessed to count a few speculative biology nerds among my friends, and they were so instrumental to creating and developing these dragons. When creating worlds I often start with “oh this would look really cool” and then try to figure out how to make it work. My friends, AJ and Daniel, asked me many, many questions about how the dragons would function, and helped me find solutions to problems that hadn’t even occurred to me. (Some fun facts: They’re reptiles, not mammals, though they give live birth. They probably don’t have the brain capacity to echolocate because of their complex language, but there’s very likely a species/subspecies that lacks much of the bioluminescence that can echolocate) My friend AJ also made the very first concept sketch of the dragons, and it’s pretty much been the design ever since. I couldn’t have made this story without them.
You also have a story featured in Fables of Hope and Light. Mind sharing a bit about this project?
The story in question is named Bluebird, and it was actually the first short story I ever wrote, though edited many many times through the years. It was also my first publication. It’s a fairytale-like story reminiscent of the prodigal son. The anthology is available until the end of the year, when it will unfortunately be taken out of publication, so if you’re interested, now is the time to get it!
What do you do when you’re not writing?
I’m currently in art school studying comic design, (though currently on an exchange side-quest to study traditional printmaking techniques) which takes up a lot of my time. I also draw on my own time, often art of my characters. I also read a lot of comics and play video-games and TTRPGS when I want to relax. And like any writer worth her salt, I spent an unbelievable amount of time thinking about my characters in every situation imaginable.
What inspired you to become a writer?
I started writing in 2020, shortly after quarantine started. I found myself with more time than I knew what to do with. I’d been reading a lot, and DNFing many books because I didn’t like them and couldn’t find what I was looking for. The combination of these elements made me decide “Well, if I can’t find what I want to read, I’ll just write it myself.” That story turned into “Gilded Blood”, my desert fantasy trilogy about a princess trying to save her older brother, the king, after he’s captured by an enemy tribe. This story is my “main” WIP, and has taken on a whole life of it’s own. I never could have imagined that small decision having such a huge butterfly effect.
Where can folks find and follow you?
I’m mainly active on Instagram under the handle @rose_everille_writes ! I often post snippets of Gilded Blood and my other WIP, Project Wanderer, a post-dystopian story about the former figurehead of the revolution searching for his lost siblings and trying to rebuild his life. I also post about my characters (because otherwise they yell at me), and try to share a little bit of my sword-fighting experience to help other writers.
about the Story
Laikal, a cabin boy aboard a dragon-hunting ship discovers he is a member of a race that has been hunted to extinction because of their ability to communicate with dragons. This puts him at odds with his crew, including his father, the captain.
Will he find acceptance and regain the love and trust of his father?
about the author
Rose Everille is a comic design student by day and a writer of Christian fiction by night. She lives on a small farm surrounded by books, art materials, and far too many pets. She has written an unpublished fantasy trilogy, multiple short stories of varying genres, and is currently wandering through a hopeful post-dystopian standalone. She enjoys wielding a longsword, a paintbrush, or a pen.
You can find her on Goodreads, Pinterest, or Instagram with the username Rose Everille.
about the anthology
Of Storm & Sea is a nautical adventure anthology that captures the romance and wonder of the ocean, with stories and poems that range from contemporary tales of ghost ships and first love, to mythology-inspired quests, to mer-queens and ex-pirates, to finding faith and footing on the rough sea. There's something so stirring and romantic about the sea, something that beckons us come and see what adventure finds us—and this collection accurately captures that idea and the emotions the ocean evokes in us. Even if you're not a pirate captain or mystery-solver or mermaid or runaway or adventurer, there's something to each of these stories you can relate to or resonate with. Just like the sea speaks to us, these stories speak to our soul's longing for escape, for redemption, for love, for a new beginning.
Featuring work from Michaela Bush, Anna Huet, Molly McTernan, Jessica B. Brown, Norah Case, Rose Everille, M.C. Kennedy, Bree Pembrook, Jennifer G. Satnic, Emma Thrasher, Linyang Zhang, Grace King-Matchett, and Lilly Tanis.
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