Goodreads asked L.E. Daniels:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

L.E. Daniels 'Serpent's Wake' started with a '89 course called The Psychology of Religion at Fairfield University in Connecticut, when I was still a psych major. The professor cited how Marie von Franz revolutionized our perspectives on fairy tales as a microcosm of our most primal struggles. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' further expanded my thinking and Judith Herman's 'Trauma and Recovery' conveyed the universality of our experiences, from veterans to children.

In essence, I wrote the story I most wanted to read: one that integrates the milestones of trauma and recovery into a tangible allegory. The events are familiar to those of us who know them, and my hope was that readers experience a sense of communion in a place where we so often feel alone.

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