Story Origin – The Burden of Royals

I’m a nerdy person by nature, so I love learning things about the books I enjoy, like how the author came up with the idea – so of course I like to post about the story origin of my own series. And since the first book in The Burden of Royals is almost here, now seemed the perfect time to discuss how the sorcerer trilogy first came to be! 

This story started through a little scene that popped into my mind of a young woman attending college hanging out on campus when a hot guy arrives. She’s annoyed to see him, though the two have an important relationship between them, while the people around her are awed at such a hot guy appearing on campus. 

After I have the initial idea, my stories usually evolve through me asking why. Why was this girl so annoyed at the appearance of the guy? Why was he there when he knew she wouldn’t be happy to see him? Why had she run off to college alone for this guy to NOT be there, and, if he annoyed her so much, why would her father support anything between her and this guy? 

I ended up creating the idea of the head sorcerer family and marriage candidates. After all, for hereditary rulers throughout history, it’s always been a concern to marry a “proper” bloodline, which would be especially important among a supernatural race where the rulers need to keep the magic of their line strong. (But sorcerers are more forward thinking than to straight up require an arranged marriage, so Cynthia has a few options to choose from.) And the reason the girl was so annoyed to see the guy was because she’s trying to figure out who she wants to marry and she wanted space to do that without any of the guys around. 

Though in the actual story I wrote, none of the guys ever suddenly show up on campus. They’re more respectful of Cynthia’s feelings than to go that far . . . even if they don’t exactly give her the space she asked for at all times. 

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