The totally made up science of belief in “Cora Riley”

At the risk of getting too theoretical, I figured it’d be fun to talk about the world design of theForgotten Relicsseries. I’m currently in the midst of drafting the secondbook while anxiously awaiting the release of the first (next Tuesday!). It’s given me lots of wibbly feels and questions about how Cora’s universe functions.

One of those questions, I haven’t been asked by anyone – not beta readers, not reviewers, not interviewers – but it seems glaringly important, so I’m going to pretend s...