The Hidden Story …

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Recently, in an interview conversation with my friend and fellow author, Mary Victoria, we talked about the writer’s intention in storytelling and also how stories can evolve independently of that.

We did so chiefly in the context of the recently publishedDaughter of Blood, but Mary also mentioned the — by and large — matter-of-fact equality between men and women in the Wall of Nightseries’ Derai society.

She also asked whether I intendedportraying “a more or less equal playing f...