Unicorns: Where Tom Cruise Meets J. K. Rowling

Writing the tale of the Unicorn was, as they say, a horse of a different color.

As I described in my post on Genre-Bending, my new novel The Ancient seeks to reimagine the mythology of several fantastical creatures. In most cases, as with the Centaur and the Dragon, this meant taking a beast maligned in most human thought and writing a tale that could explain not only the creature’s true nature, but also how the corruption might conceivably have occurred. With the Unicorn, however,...