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Tag: urban fantasy worldbuilding

Ideas for celebrating Samhain

October 19, 2021
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| Aimee Easterling's Inspiration, Series: Samhain Shifters

Halloween was second only to Christmas as my favorite childhood holiday. (Yes, even though my family didn’t eat sugar, so I had to give away all of the candy I collected.) Dressing up as something else and carving jack-o-lanterns scratched the same creative itch I now pour into my books.   No wonder adult me…

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Lions, Bears, and Werewolves, Oh My: Video from the 2020 Imaginarium

September 28, 2020
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The Imaginarium was forced to go online due to the pandemic…which means my talk turned into a video I can share with you! Humans that morph into animals abound in fantasy and romance and can even be found in literary fiction, science fiction, and horror. But which shifters appeal to which readers? From fated mates…

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Selkies and swan maidens and woelfin

April 28, 2020
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Those of you who have dived into my Moon-crossed Wolves series may be wondering where the idea of woelfin came from. The short version is — I made it up. Of course, no story exists in a vacuum, and woelfin have real predecessors in the mythological world. Many of you have probably heard about selkies….

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The universal appeal of shifters: A trope for every genre

February 6, 2020
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Humans that morph into animals abound in stories of fantasy and romance and can even be found in literary fiction, science fiction, and horror. But which shifters appeal to which readers? I have my own theories, but I thought I’d see how they stack up against real-life responses. To that end, I polled three facebook…

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Looking for werewolves in ancient petroglyphs

January 2, 2019
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I’m only a few chapters into the first draft of my 2019 series, which means the characters, the plot, and even the world are entirely in flux. This is the dreamtime of a novel, when I submerge myself in ideas without requiring any of them to stick. Here’s what I know: My heroine is a modern-day…

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Kitsune lore

October 26, 2018
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I can’t actually remember what was going through my head a year ago when decided that my next protagonist was going to be a kitsune — a Japanese fox shifter. I think I was perusing lists of traditional shifter types and stumbled across this unfamiliar being with so many fascinating traits. Despite that gap in…

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In the company of wolves

June 18, 2018
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My first novel-length story erupted out of me during late elementary school. I remember spending hours scribbling down Violet’s adventures, but the plot is completely lost to the mists of time…or so I thought until last week. Imagine my surprise when my mother dug up the drawing and typed scene above, proving that Violet was…

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Sebastien’s favorite chocolate cookies

January 29, 2018
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Sebastien is a bit of a dark horse through much of the Wolf Legacy series. He has interesting tics and traits that speak to a shadowed past…and he’s not very willing to share those intimate details with the general public. I tried to interview him earlier to give my loyal readers insight into into his…

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First Blood

August 14, 2017
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In fall 2017, I launched a new series that returns to a character from the Wolf Rampant series…twenty-four years later than when you saw her last. Ember is now all grown up and facing new challenges. But before you learn more about those trials and tribulations, I thought you might enjoy a story from the…

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Crewing an airship

March 28, 2017
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Those of you who’ve read Verdant Magic will be familiar with the heroine for the book I’m currently working on. Sabrina Fairweather is the captain of an airship…and in Cerulean Magic it was time to give the captain a crew. But how many employees would Sabrina need and what would each one do? I started…

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