The World Beyond the Story

This post was originally written for Ella Drake's blog.



The Duke and the Pirate Queen is set in a fantasy world that's based on all kinds of elements taken from our own world. Maxime's duchy is a Mediterranean-esque land with aspects of several centuries and countries.

Imena comes from an empire that's very loosely based on fifteenth-century China–I say "loosely" because though I read Gavin Menzies' 1421: The Year China Discovered America, no specific facts from it made their way into the ...