Celeste Harte is an African-American writer living in Spain. She loves reading and writing sci-fi and fantasy, and is obsessed with all things mermaids and dragons. When she’s not building worlds and getting lost in her own fantasies, she’s probably dancing to random music or watching (yet another) Korean drama. In addition to her native language, she speaks Spanish and Catalan almost fluently, some French, and would love to learn Korean.
I am Celeste Harte, and I have two books, one that’s out, Conquest, and one that’s coming out soon, Rising, cover soon to be revealed!
How did you come up with the idea for your book?
Haha, oddly enough, it was a series of what ifs built off watching Jurassic Park and wondering if the world started off with dragons instead of dinosaurs and building from there. It’s a lot of examining modernism and some habits we’ve picked up as people that’s not necessarily good, and wondering how we can take the past to advance us into the future better. A lot more thinking than really should be started from Jurassic Park, so that should tell you a lot about me right there.
What do you love about being an author?
I love the ability to escape into a world of my own making whenever I so please. It’s my own private super power that both delights and frustrates me in equal parts. Oddly enough even in my own world things don’t happen the way I planned.