Judy Villaflor
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Kristen Ashley:
Hi.... I love your books and discovered them accidentally, which to this day I'm pretty much happy with that accident. I wanted to know how you came up with the inspiration for an alternate universe in Fantasyland? And when is the 5th book coming? Lots of love.
Kristen Ashley
Weirdly enough, the Fantasyland books started with FANTASTICAL. I wrote that one first and got inspired to write it after watching the totally awesome Disney film, TANGLED.
Going backwards from there, GAME OF THRONES inspired THE GOLDEN DYNASTY, though I will say that I wrote the bit about the wife hunt in FANTASTICAL before watching GoT, however, the rest of the savage land of Korwahk hit me when I saw Drogo and Khaleesi in GoT.
For some reason that escapes me now, after THE GOLDEN DYNASTY, I wrote ANOTHER prequel, WILDEST DREAMS. This was supposed to be more about the hero and his boys being raiders (or pirates) and somehow the ice country of Lunwyn was born.
So in truth, I wrote that series backward. HA!
Going backwards from there, GAME OF THRONES inspired THE GOLDEN DYNASTY, though I will say that I wrote the bit about the wife hunt in FANTASTICAL before watching GoT, however, the rest of the savage land of Korwahk hit me when I saw Drogo and Khaleesi in GoT.
For some reason that escapes me now, after THE GOLDEN DYNASTY, I wrote ANOTHER prequel, WILDEST DREAMS. This was supposed to be more about the hero and his boys being raiders (or pirates) and somehow the ice country of Lunwyn was born.
So in truth, I wrote that series backward. HA!
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