The topic for #InkRipples this month is genres. Growing up I didn’t think about genres. If a book looked interesting, I read it. To be honest, I can’t even really say when I started to think about genres. Maybe when I worked at Borders? This happened to coincide with the time I started thinking about taking my writing more seriously and attempting to write a novel myself. But what are genres really for? For me, genres are simply a nice way to find a book to read when I’m looking for something new. I have to admit, my go to genre is fantasy. Are you surprised? I love the elements of magic and…
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Inspiration behind the Dreamland forest
I’ve been asked where I get my inspiration, so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of some things that helped inspire The Gardenia Curse in a series of ‘inspiration’ posts. I’ll start with some pictures of the forest walk that was around the corner from my house during the time I was writing about Eva’s forays into the Dreamland forest. I would often take walks through this forest with my family. On evening walks when the sun was just beginning to drop, the shadows were emerging, and the cold began moving in is when I felt Eva’s forest coming to life. These pictures and this forest helped inspire the section in…
