![]() ![]() I would say that the biggest challenge is just trying to make sure that I’m doing something different, but something that’s similar enough that people who loved my other books will easily fall in love with this one. What was the challenge of writing this as compared to writing The Wrath and the Dawn? ![]() And just playing around with gender tropes, I really like it. They provided so much inspiration for this story, so I think I just wanted-I’m a sucker for those girls dressing up as boy warriors kind of things. And also the stories of my childhood that I loved, like Tamora Pierce’s “The Song of the Lioness” series, Norse mythology, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” and of course, Mulan. ![]() But there’s a lot of subversion there, too, that gives you a lot of room to play with. And I loved the idea of samurai and ninja because when you juxtapose them alongside the western idea of a knight, that’s very much what’s going on there. My mother’s family is South Korean, and I always knew that I wanted to write a book that brought an east asian world to life. The inspiration for Flame in the Mist is, I’m of east asian heritage. What inspired you to write Flame in the Mist? ![]() We went to Yallwest and spent some time talking East Asian culture and feudal Japan with FLAME IN THE MIST author Renee Ahdieh.įlame in the Mist author Renee Ahdieh was at the Yallwest book festival in Santa Monica, California, and we spent a few minutes with her to talk about her upcoming book, the first of a new duology. ![]()
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