#amwriting – a look inside the author process

In last week’s post, I mentioned how I kept coming across kickass heroines who were ballet dancers. I’ve also read dozens of books featuring either a Celtic or Greek mythology. 

I love those stories and even wrote my own YA romcom retelling of the Persephone myth under my pen name Tellulah Darling in My Ex From Hell. 

However, when it came to writing Nava, I wanted a Jewish MC to make up for all the years that I’d wished to see someone like me reflected in whatever story I was reading. (Stories that WEREN’T an issue book. Too many of those.) but I wanted to explore Jewish history and mythology.

It started with something I’d read about King Saul being possessed by a demon which was cast out by David. From there, it was an easy leap to imagine David forming this Brotherhood. But what shocked me, the deeper that I went into the series, was how much information in both the Old Testament and Jewish mythology there was that tied perfectly into my series.

Every time I came across another piece of information that worked for the story, I got so excited. 

Which mythologies speak to your cultural or religious background?

There was another reason for using Jewish history and mythology in this book, but that, my Wilde One’s, is for next week. 

Read all the fabulous mythology in the series by diving into The Unlikeable Demon Hunter today! https://geni.us/g1BHd

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