Beth asked Deborah Harkness:

Despite the book being about vampires, witches, and daemons, it felt so real in many ways. In part I think because I read them as archetypes - e.g. woman who needs to claim her power and a brooding, strong male making peace with his shadow side...Also the parallels to racial issues in our world make it very relevant. Was that your intention or was that just my lense? Thank you!!

Deborah Harkness Those were indeed some of my intentional themes. There were others, too: the important of empathy, the idea that "different" doesn't mean "evil."

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As a writer, especially one that created these wonderful characters and stories with a lot of depth and history, I imagine you get creative burnout sometimes, if you do, how do you work through your creative burnout and prepare for your next big project? (lovely meeting you last night by the way!)

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Do you identify yourself as a feminist, and has feminism influenced how you developed your female and male characters?

Brittany asked Deborah Harkness:

I have heard some authors who write a series mention (or have even shown readers) that they have notes and material about the world and characters they created that they never used in the series for one reason or another. Do you have material like this?

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As a writer, especially one that created these wonderful characters and stories with a lot of depth and history, I imagine you get creative burnout sometimes, if you do, how do you work through your creative burnout and prepare for your next big project? (lovely meeting you last night by the way!)

Do you identify yourself as a feminist, and has feminism influenced how you developed your female and male characters?

I have heard some authors who write a series mention (or have even shown readers) that they have notes and material about the world and characters they created that they never used in the series for one reason or another. Do you have material like this?

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