Elyria is so colorful and so magical, and I would love to hear your inspiration and where you found her.

Yeah.

Well, thank you very much.

I love my cover so much.

And I think that just, I did get very lucky that Elyria has kind of become a very like iconic female main character.

You know, she's got like the periwinkle hair and the wings and like the badassery all combined in one thing.

And, you know, I think I just, as I set out writing kind of a fantasy, you know, novel and creating a world of my own, I just kind of kept being like...

so...

Well, if you could have that dirty chai with any two book characters, could be from your books, could be from other people's books, who are you drinking dirty chai with?

Wow, what a question.

I can definitely think of quite a few characters from my own books that I would love to get a coffee with and just, like, chat with.

However, I really think that it would be super fun to get to, like, pull some of my favorite characters, obviously from books that I've read.

And I think that, like, it would be hilarious [laughs] if I could, like, get Carrion Swift from Quicksilver and, like, Maxentarius Marleon [laughs] from Daughter of No WorldsLike, at my table together and just, like, see what happens.

Like, talk about gardening a little bit maybe between the two of them, and both of them would have, like, wildly different takes on every subject.

I think it would be amazing to just, like, witness, 'cause you've got, you know, like, grumpy Max over on one side, and like, you know, plant daddy Carrion, like, with his quips on the other.

Yeah.