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Author N.D. Stevenson has revealed that he wrote his new novel Scarlet Morning — set for release on Sept. 23 — when he was just a teenager himself

"I wanted to bring this into the present and bring a more adult lens to it," the author told PEOPLE

Scarlet Morning follows Stevenson's novel Legend of the Fire Princess , released in 2020

N.D. Stevenson is opening up about the origins of his new novel, Scarlet Morning .

In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE, the Nimona author, 33, revealed that he first started writing the book as a teenager. He picked it up again and completed it after rediscovering the draft years later.

“I wrote the first draft of it when I was a young teenager,” Stevenson told PEOPLE. “A few years back, I was dealing with a lot of burnout from my

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