megs_bookrack ((struggling to catch up)) asked Liselle Sambury:

Blood Like Magic is one of my favorite books that I have read this year. It's such a beautifully written and intricate story. How long did you have this story and these characters in your head before you started to write? Or perhaps, it evolved as you were writing? Either way, it's amazing and I am so looking forward to the sequel!! xx

Liselle Sambury Thank you so much!! I’m so happy you enjoyed it ☺️ I actually didn’t have the story in my head for very long at all. It was just a passing thought that I would love to write about a family of Black witches. I was planning to write an entirely different story, but I lost steam on it. And the idea of that Black witch family wouldn’t let go combined with a homesickness for Toronto and wanting to set something there. So when I started the story, I was working off maybe a couple week’s worth of thoughts about it.

The bulk of the story as it is now was developed over multiple drafts. It used to be less than half length it was when published, so most of the layers I’ve come to love in it were created over a period of a year and a half of editing. Nowadays, I do try and spend a lot more time planning my stories before I write, but Blood Like Magic was very much a project where I discovered the story as I went.

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