Royally Broken✓

Random Facts

Here are exactly 50 random facts about this book. Hope you enjoy!!!

1. I changed this book's name three time (or maybe more)
2. In the first chapter, Astrid's mom was really mean and basically a bitch and her dad was nice, but I changed that.
3. Aris was going to be this really cold hearted kid who care about nothing but his friends and his gang, but I changed it last second so he would be nicer.
4. There was going to be a Dance of Death duel at the Gang gala, but I wanted to keep it short so I took that out.
5. There was also going to be a performance that had Astrid hanging from the chandelier with another attack, but again, it would be too long.
6. I unpublished this book once and almost deleted it twice because I didn't like it
7. I was so happy with the comment that you guys gave. They were actually the only thing that made me feel like this book wasn't that bad because I cringed every time I thought of one of the scenes.
8. Hayden wasn't originally going to know that Astrid was the Spanish Princess, but I made her his cousin, which made Hayden a royal.
9. I had to go back and check what the characters' names were every time because I am a weird author who forgets their own characters.
10. Every time I would write a chapter, I would vividly imagine it but wouldn't be able to write it down very well.
11. I've never actually experienced anything that I wrote, so I did try my best to recreate a real life scene. Although I did make them unusually unrealistic...
12. I was going to make Marcella a bad spy, but it would get way too complicated in an already super complicated plot.
13. I changed the cover more times that I could count before settling on this one. I thing I played with the design for the picture ten times too.
14. I absolutely suck at editing so when I did edit and then go back an read my chapter, I randomly found two more mistakes.
15. I started this book when I was 13 and after March was 14 when I finished this book.
16. I tried keeping a constant schedule for updating but wasn't able to manage it because of school work.
17. Sky and Feya were originally meant to be together but I didn't write it down because I couldn't find a place to put it in.
18. Aris and Hayden were supposed to hate each other completely, not act in school because of their business, but that changed too.
19. I kept the chapters as decimals so it would keep me motivated to write until I reached a whole number because I really don't like decimals that aren't whole numbers.
20. I swore way to much throughout the whole book.
21. I rewrote the 'Welcome' chapter three times.
22. I found out I had tendinitis on my birthday. It wasn't fun.
23. I searched the spelling of cologne for one of my chapters and found out it translated to toilet water in French. My mind was literally blown away.
24. Their music teacher was originally going to be an old member of the Assassins.
25. Astrid is actually introverted who likes to talk to herself more than people but wasn't bad at it.
26. My parakeets sat next to me while I wrote mot of the chapters. They occasionally chirped in my ear.
27. Indigo was actually Marcella, only the school's Queen Bitch, but I gave her more purpose and made her a part of Astrid's close friends.
28. I changed the plot exactly 27 times.
29. I came up with the idea of Astrid while I was doing the dishes and dancing.
30. When I wasn't inspired, I stared at the white screen until something hit me.
31. I said the sentence faster than I could write them, so I ended up forgetting half of what I was going to right.
32. I never expected this book to get more that 100 reads and 10 votes.
33. The first time I heard the name Astrid was from Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly, and liked it so much, I decided to name Astrid, Astrid.
34. Astrid never seemed to have any weaknesses and I realized it too late.
35. Eva was supposed to be against Aris, Astrid, and Hayden; a traitor.
36. I had other ideas for other books which I did start but didn't have the heart to finish.
37. Originally, I though of Astrid as some person who had a terrible past and grew on that to be the Assassin type thing she was today, but that view gradually changed.
38. This book was my New Year's gift to me, congratulating me for how I had survived 2019 without falling life.
39. Astrid was also going to be an orphaned girl was was rich and lived by herself and went to school. Seeing how she was 17, I realized that wasn't sadly possible.
40. When Astrid saw the fox before the DD's attacked, she was actually going to be shot at and then she would get Sky's call.
41. Aris was going to have a sister and a brother who were 7 and 8.
42. The last chapter was going to have another attack with her past attacker but I changed the ending to be sweet.
43. I wrote most of the chapters on a computer and two of them on an iPad. I sadly don't have a phone.
44. I was originally going to involve the Assassins a lot and Marcella too, but decided against it.
45. Skylark was going to have a prosthetic leg, but I didn't know how I would write that and if I would even write the feelings correctly.
46. There were going to be a lot of different POV's through out the book.
47. When I started writing, I didn't;t know what to expect, at all; so I did make a few mistakes.
48. My typo record is 42 words (in a chapter).
49. I struggled writing the beginning parts of the story because I had no defined plot until the middle.
50. I really enjoyed writing this book, and hella cringed when I was reading it again. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Have fun and read forever!!!