Quinn Coleman

I went on a journey, y’all. Legit.

I’m not often a traveler; I don’t have a wanderlust in me to pack up a weekend bag and travel to Colorado or Utah or hike a mountain or visit the beach.
I love trips, sure, but I typically am only ever on a plane for business travel, not fun.

So it was quite the adventure when I stuffed nine days worth of clothes in a suitcase and went up to the northeast.

Nine. Days.
Yeesh…

I called it my ‘book tour’, and it was…

Honestly? Amazing.

When I first started The Letterman in 2020, and it was a standalone, I have no idea what inspired me to place it in a town I’d never been in, let alone a state I knew next to nothing about. Harrington, Delaware was miles and mountains away; I couldn’t even tell you where it was on a map. Same thing with Towson, Maryland, where Alternate Ending takes place.

One of my biggest goals is to go everywhere I put in a book (sans fantasy, but you never know…)
That so far includes far away places like Scotland, Gibraltar, Boston, Lancashire, LA, the rural landscapes of Japan and the coasts of Norway, the city of Towson, and the tiny town of Harrington and more.

To scratch not one but TWO of those places off?
Wow.
Wow, that’s pretty stinking cool.

Below are a few pictures from my trip; not shown (but trust me, pictures were taken), I got to pay homage to my series by…
* Seeing museums and monuments of DC (Alternate Ending)
* Having an ice cream cone in DC (Alternate Ending)
* Getting coffee at multiple spots (All books, lets be real)
* Driving from Harrington to the coast (The Letterman)
* Exploring the neighborhoods and farmlands of Delaware (The Letterman and The Brother Project)
* Checking out a very specific landmark for The Brother Project…

While the journey overall circled around this ‘tour’, it also was a chance to inspect some other cities I wondered if I’d end up living in; places in the mountains of Virginia, off the coast of Maryland.

That being said, the biggest thing I learned when I got back was:

For now, I’m right where I’m supposed to be, writing about places leagues away, creating characters that anyone all over the world can resonate with.

With the countdown until Book 3 ticking away, I’m more excited than ever to keep working on this series.
And…
the seventh book that may or may not have bubbled up out of nowhere while I was mid-driving from Virginia to Maryland one day. More information on that to come in the future!