If I weren't an Author...A brilliant guest post from Caighlan Smith, author of upcoming awesome YA novel "Children of Icarus"

Except I’m rather inept at drawing. That might be a detriment to the plan. Plus, is being a comic artist cheating? 

I’d still want to write the stories as well as draw them, so technically I’d still be an author. 

OK, maybe I’d be a video game designer? I’m a huge gamer, and I will basically play anything from RPGs to farming simulators to first-person shooters. But I guess creating games would also be cheating, in a way, because I’d want to create the plot behind the games, and the characters.

I definitely wouldn’t want to do the programming, as I’m also inept with computers shy of word processers. So I’d be a video game tester. Oh yes, now that does sound nice. Very tempting too, actually. A girl can have more than one career, right? (ed note: Videogame testing is actually TERRIBLY boring, trust us on this one!)

Some of my favourite video games are fantasy related—whether it’s straight-up magic or hunting mutant demons or zombies. Fantasy’s my favourite genre in general, for games or books, and I regularly cuddle all its cousin genres: post-apocalyptic, supernatural, sci-fi, etc. 

So it’ll come as no surprise that my new novel, Children of Icarus, has a heavy dose of the fantastical. The story follows a girl who is forced to enter a labyrinth which will supposedly lead her to paradise. 

Instead, she and a group of other youths must fight for survival against the horrors of the labyrinth. 

Did I mention I also love survival games?

"Children of Icarus" is out now from Curious Fox. Don't forget to check out all the other stunning posts on the CoI Blog Tour!