![]() ![]() When actual demons start invading the kingdom, the girls are given a choice: fight or die.ģ. The Gilded Ones is a YA fantasy set in an African-inspired empire where a group of girls have been labeled demons because they bleed gold and are faster and stronger than regular people. Can you tell us what The Gilded Ones is about? I'm currently writing the screenplay for The Gilded Ones movie.Ģ. The funny thing is that already being a novelist made me a good screenwriter when I started, and then the screenwriting fed my novel writing. ![]() Then I got my agent Alice and wrote The Gilded Ones. Once again, the message was the same: there's no room in this industry for you.īut I persisted, sold a couple of scripts that went nowhere, and just barely scraped by. ![]() While at film school, I fell into screenwriting, which, I regret to tell you, was just as punishing as publishing. So I decided to go to film school to see if there were any jobs I'd like while trying to get the novelist dream started. The consistent feedback I received was that Black people don't write books, particularly fantasy, and that the industry was not for me. I decided to be a novelist at 19, and I immediately wrote a couple of books and tried to get them published. My route to writing was long and painful. ![]() What has been your route into writing? How has being a screen writer supported you in writing a novel - and are you still working on film? Here, Namina Forna tells us about her journey to create The Gilded Ones.ġ. ![]()
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