“I was at home when I was left without the Internet. It was too late, it was dark and slushy on the street. And it all started. I started to write science fiction. Spontaneously, ” modern Russian writer Elena Petrova told about the start of her writing activity in an interview.
Biography and career
The future writer was born on March 23, 1977. Her native city is Tver.
Parents celebrated the creative beginning in it from childhood. So, in addition to a regular school, she still attended art school. She was interested in everything, she tried herself and at sewing courses, unlearned at computer, and then accounting courses. Regarding tailoring as an erroneous hobby, she wrote on her blog: “A couple of years of life down the drain!”.
Then she went to study as a secretary, having defended a diploma in this profession. Then there was study at the university - the Modern Humanitarian Institute. The specialty received in him is an economist.
During her studies, Elena tried herself in various professions, taking up any part-time job. She worked as a secretary, and a croupier in a casino, and as an operator in a taxi company, and as a cashier in a store. As she called herself, this “crazy kaleidoscope of professions” has become an excellent foundation for exploring different types of personalities.
With her usual sense of humor, the girl notes: “Since then I turned into a complete cynic and received an honorary order from the Brotherhood of Pofigists.” She adds that she usually hides her “merits”, showing herself to be “good and fluffy.”
After graduating from high school, Petrova got a job as an accountant. But this did not stop her from sitting down again at her desk and getting a second higher education, now in the creative field - by profession of designer. She explains her deed with a complete lack of logic: “Logic has never slept in my chaotic life.”
Bibliography
Elena Petrova is a fictitious name of a writer, her real name is pretty similar - Elena Petrochenko. And here the girl makes fun of her readers with humor, choosing a pseudonym in honor of her own heroine of a published book in the fantasy genre “Lane”.
In 2007, this work was released and quickly gained fame. The book was highly praised by fans of the humorous fantasy genre. In the following decades, this first book was reprinted many times.
The continuation of the story also did not lie on the shelves of bookstores. In 2008, the sequel to Becoming a Demiurge was released. The third book of the short story “Make a Choice” appeared in print in 2015.
For all three books (including parts already released), the rights to the publication today belong to Eksmo Publishing House.
Series of books "Lane"
- Lane
- Become a demiurge
- Make a choice
- Come back home
The girl did not stop there. In 2015, Petrova wrote the first book of a completely different genre and series, called “Cursed Luck”. It was released in October 2015, and two years later another work was released in a new cycle.
- Series of books “Damned luck”
- Damn luck
- Taurine
Both cycles tell of girls who find themselves in a completely different world, different from the reality surrounding us, in which they show their characteristic, stoic qualities of survival. They change reality for themselves.
About creativity
In an interview with the writers' portal, Elena Petrova said that she has very little free time, but she will always find an hour or two a day in literary work, or even more. According to her, the presence of the main work (accountant) leaves little time for writing, however, “this has its own advantages - the plot is“ rolled in ”in the mind, the next chapter is invented”. When asked about the system and planning, she replied: “As such, finely structured, I do not have a system. There is a definite reference point and a visible target. Between them, I mark approximate points of movement."
Elena is often asked the question: does she identify herself with her heroine Leyna, because she even repeated her name in a pseudonym? “I am not Lane!” Is the answer of the writer. - Although this is not the absolute truth. I am sure that the heroes somehow absorb something from their creator. More precisely, the writer invests a part of himself in the invented heroes. So in some ways, both Lane and Zhenya (approx. - the heroes of her books) are still me. ”
According to the genre, the published cycles differ as follows: “Lane” is fantasy, and the books of the cycle “Damned luck” are a full-fledged cosmoopera. And in both genres, Petrova managed to demonstrate her skills.
Elena draws inspiration and ideas, no matter how trite it sounds, from their own dreams.
There have been creative crises in the author’s life, but this was due to sad events, she notes, “the death of people close to me, so I'm not sure that this can be called a“ creative ”crisis.” Just then, she “did not want and could not write, especially humorous things.”
Elena tries not to advertise among friends and acquaintances that she is the author of books. Many people don’t even know about her “double” life, she admits: “In real life I have a different surname and a completely different circle of acquaintances.”
