Rusty's Ghost Engine (also known as.......... Jinky Spring)
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Rin Chupeco:
Hi! I really look forward to reading your books particularly your Bone Witch series! I've read many reviews for those books and I just wondered if the world building is based on any real world mythologies? What inspired you to write those books?
Rin Chupeco
Thank you!
The Philippines, where I live, is a strange mix of cultures - we have several Chinese, Filipino and Western, and Middle Eastern influences, and I wanted to envision kingdoms with them in mind, each having varying degrees of influence. (Kion, of course, forms the melting pot.) The overarching Middle Eastern influence though, is inspired by the Ayyubid dynasty under Saladin.
Asha are inspired by geisha, but Dark asha are more reminiscent of the Filipino mangkukulam / witch doctor, albeit with better dress.
The series itself is about family, specifically siblings - I had an older brother I never knew (miscarriage before I was born) so writing a story where a sister raises a brother from the dead might be a bit on the nose / wishful thinking on my end. But I'd like to think my brother would have been a lot like Fox!
The Philippines, where I live, is a strange mix of cultures - we have several Chinese, Filipino and Western, and Middle Eastern influences, and I wanted to envision kingdoms with them in mind, each having varying degrees of influence. (Kion, of course, forms the melting pot.) The overarching Middle Eastern influence though, is inspired by the Ayyubid dynasty under Saladin.
Asha are inspired by geisha, but Dark asha are more reminiscent of the Filipino mangkukulam / witch doctor, albeit with better dress.
The series itself is about family, specifically siblings - I had an older brother I never knew (miscarriage before I was born) so writing a story where a sister raises a brother from the dead might be a bit on the nose / wishful thinking on my end. But I'd like to think my brother would have been a lot like Fox!
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Maddy
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Rin Chupeco:
Nearly all the reviews I read, both positive and negative, cited the (potential?) love triangle in The Bone Witch as one of the novel's negative aspects, and it had me wondering: do you find it peculiar that YA authors are increasingly writing love triangles because it sells, while the apparent critical response in the community regarding love triangles become even more vocal?
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