Goodreads asked Azriel Hope:

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

Azriel Hope The Fall of Arcades was inspired by the cover art. :) I saw the art in a premade online book shop and the story just came to me. I sat on a beach in Mexico and drafted the entire book in one day. The rest of the stories in the series grew from the characters and in the last book, the one I'm writing now...I was like...seriously? Did that just happen? Really? I shocked myself and the idea just came, I think, honestly, the characters begin to exist at some point and the story grows from them.

With Desdemona, it was a bad dream :) and it is seriously cool and messed up and beautiful.

The Lovely is a tribute to a person who changed my life...

The Chronicles of Light came from working at as a barista at a tea house years ago where some very funky sh!t happened.

The Mother...well it's an amazing story about my own mom's murder and all the mothers who are involved, including the "mother" who took her life.

I have one other series I'm starting next year called The Tara Strain and its a very strange and eerie yet compelling take on a vampire romance that just got in my brain and wouldn't leave me alone....so it's going to be a story and it's a doozy let me tell you.

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