Hey all,
When I started writing the Scorched series, one of the most
interesting parts was imagining how people in our time would react to seeing
dragons in real life. How would they react? What would they do? Would they be
frightened, fascinated—maybe a little of each? Would the cable news stations
debate the reality of their existence? Would the government come in and try to
take them down—or use them for their own gain and cover it up in an
X-Files’esque type conspiracy?
And most importantly, would people upload their dragon
sightings to YouTube? Would they take dragon selfies?
In Smoked, Team Dragon launches a social media campaign to
help Emmy gain recognition and acceptance in our world. It was fun to imagine
how a group would promote dragons and make them go viral. As part of my
research, I went and looked on YouTube to see if there were any dragon
sightings already uploaded. And, to my surprise (and delight) there were!
I compiled a few fun ones for you to check out. Fact? Fiction?
Real? Fake? You’ll have to decide…
“Real Dragon Caught on Camera”
“Real Dragon sightings in China” (This one is hard to see at
first, but once you watch for a minute it’s really cool.)
Ball field dragon sighting
(Just like Emmy landing in the football field!)
