Featuring SCANDAL By Athena Grayson

Today, we have Athena Grayson here to talk about SCANDAL: SCIONS OF THE STAR EMPIRE #1. I love Athena’s writing! It’s sharp and smart, driven by timely what-ifs and contemporary ideas turn into future theories. I love it!

I asked Athena, “What inspired SCANDAL and the SCIONS OF STAR EMPIRE Series?”

She replied…

One of the most baffling things I find about the world Financial markets is futures trading in the commodities market. In the movie “Trading Places,” Randolph and Mortimer Duke (played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) explain to Eddie Murphy’s Billy Ray Valentine character a simplification of what commodities brokers do, to which Billy Ray replies, “Sounds like y’all are a coupla bookies.”

The original concept for Scions was “Gossip Girl meets Dune.” Social media has become so prevalent in our lives that celebrities live and die on “likes” and “shares.” Yet no one seemed to be accepting “likes and shares” in exchange for coffee or car payments.