A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

There’s one way I can see him, I guess. I click on the photo app. He’s not exactly a selfie guy—I don’t even think he has a social media account—but he takes them with Mom when she asks.

In the first draft of CURSE, Harper's phone acted like the traditional "magic mirror" that would let her see what was going on in her home world. My editor and I worried that having Harper see the real world was too distracting from the immersion into Emberfall, so I had to remove all those scenes. It was a fun challenge to figure out how Harper could still make the same discoveries (like finding out her brother was in love and he'd been keeping it a secret) without actually "seeing" things happen.