Emilie Autumn
Hello Angie,
Thank you for your very good question—I'm happy to answer it!
I have an odd connection to the name "Violet," and the truth is that I've no idea why. It keeps popping up in my life, and the beginning of that was with this story. I desperately wish I could say, "oh, yes, well it's because Mournington's daughter Violet has an alternate reality of her own and so on...," but I can't. That was simply the name of my fellow inmate in the hospital, and then, when the Asylum world began to form in my notebook, that name was just there in M.M.'s letters, as the first (or was she?) victim of young Stockill. I didn't plan it, or think about it at all, and I didn't even realize until long after the first edition was printed. If I had, I would likely have changed one of the Violets to something else to avoid confusion. Perhaps there IS a deep connection between those two characters that even I am not aware of, and if I ever find out, I'll be sure to let you know:)!
All my gratitude,
~ EA
Thank you for your very good question—I'm happy to answer it!
I have an odd connection to the name "Violet," and the truth is that I've no idea why. It keeps popping up in my life, and the beginning of that was with this story. I desperately wish I could say, "oh, yes, well it's because Mournington's daughter Violet has an alternate reality of her own and so on...," but I can't. That was simply the name of my fellow inmate in the hospital, and then, when the Asylum world began to form in my notebook, that name was just there in M.M.'s letters, as the first (or was she?) victim of young Stockill. I didn't plan it, or think about it at all, and I didn't even realize until long after the first edition was printed. If I had, I would likely have changed one of the Violets to something else to avoid confusion. Perhaps there IS a deep connection between those two characters that even I am not aware of, and if I ever find out, I'll be sure to let you know:)!
All my gratitude,
~ EA
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Hello again, Emilie! I don't know if you'll have time to answer yet another question, but I'll take my chances! Do you feel that your personal perspective on the message you want your story to carry has changed as you've grown? Do you think that you have now another aim with the story that you hadn't thought of when you first released the book? Thanks for answering our questions!
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