Rebecca Kim Wells
Rebecca Kim Wells asked Isabel Sterling:

How did you get the idea for THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN?

Isabel Sterling Hannah, the main character, came to me first. I kept coming back to this image of a teen witch working at a magic shop in Salem, MA thinking to herself "if only these fools knew what REAL witches were like..."

There were a few false starts (there wasn't any actual magic in the first draft, strangely enough) but Hannah's personality is nearly unchanged (though perhaps more nuanced now!) from that first flash of idea.

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