I think Wild Embers, being the beginning of the Fire series, is a bit different to Your Soul is a River because it focuses strongly on passion, femininity and self love whereas the overarching theme in Your Soul is a healing journey from a traumatic time, whether abuse or a heartbreak. But, this time you explore these themes through fairy tales, is that right? Who do you hope to reach with Wild Embers? Why fairy tales? Much like Your Soul Is A River, your other book, Wild Embers, explores personal growth and healing in the context of nature and the universe. The night sky, nature, fairytales – things we experience or have experienced and then build the poetic story around it. I choose the themes that I think would be tangible to myself and the reader most. When I am writing, I consider the book itself like a single story, almost a novel, a journey through a character’s experiences, the protagonist being the reader. I love the idea of organising multiple pieces of writing to create a single larger piece that reiterates the same thought. What inspires those themes, and why have you chosen to write about the specific themes you have in the past? I hope to talk more in depth about actual survival through the use of nature imagery, to manifest the beauty of the soul with words and to continue to give people the kind of hope that Your Soul Is A River started.

The Water trilogy is all about hope and healing and surviving through grief. Will you tell us more about the trilogy of Your Soul Is A River, and what we can expect from the next two books? And that like them, we shouldn’t question our existence as much as we do. That stars don’t ever anguish over their purpose, they simply shine, as they are meant to do. Coming upon this fact, that human beings are in fact, 93 percent stardust I realised that all this angst I was going through actually had meaning. I think my favourite piece from Your Soul is a Riveris definitely “93 percent stardust” The reason being that when I wrote it, I was actually going through a bit of an existential crisis about my purpose in this world. If you had to choose a favorite piece from Your Soul Is A River, what would it be and why?

Wild Embers by Nikita Gill