If anything, it made the series gain even more steam as word of mouth spread. The tone shift felt perfectly placed to readers. Here you go, I made the love interest super gross! Have fun!” “I didn’t really warn my editor what I was going to do with Ruthless Gods. I can’t believe nobody stopped me,” the writer chuckled. “I still actually can’t believe I got away with the stuff that I got away with. Not only was it a huge success but it crafted a rare new niche for YA romance swirling with the gruesome and grotesque. But in the second book Ruthless Gods, Duncan took a swift turn into cosmic horror. The terrifying nature of gods, faith, and creation are all key to the magic of the Something Dark and Holy series. And it didn’t really work until I had done like a year of research on Russian and Polish folklore and kind of used that to the base that I then built around.” That kind of high fantasy where there’s no real world analog, you’re just kind of making everything up,” she explained. I had always written fantasy like Dungeons and Dragons. “It took a lot of research, because I wasn’t grounding it in the real world before this. I kept writing the first 15,000 words over and over and not really getting anywhere.”īut it was her decision to dig into Slavic storytelling traditions that helped her breakthrough. “But it took so long to go from the tiny idea of a girl that can talk to gods to something that was viable. All good books come from Skyrim,” Duncan laughed. “I was playing Skyrim when I got the idea.
Like most creative projects, The Something Dark and Holy trilogy began with a lot of trial and error-and a most unexpected source of inspiration.
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