A reader asked, what inspired my heroines: Astria, Diana, Katheryn, Jeannine, Makashti, Meriel.
It was a statue of Joan
of Arc in Paris.
Cliché? Maybe.
Everyone knows of Joan,
how she led France to victory over the English and helped crown a king . . .
- And they burned her at
the stake for it.
But we know little
about her inner thoughts, her personal encounters and traumas, how she grew,
what she learned, or the virtues that armored
her.
That’s a story worth
telling!
Not the superhero
with spectacular powers, but the ‘every-man/every-woman,’ the regular person
like all of us without superpowers, thrown into extraordinary situations.
What do they do? How
do they survive? How do they achieve
their goals?
To me, that was
Earth-Sea, Narnia, Ringworld, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings . . .
That’s the story I
wanted to tell through the eyes and hearts of ordinary people, steeled with virtue,
wit, and courage, who oppose the injustice thrust upon them.
And I hope their
stories interest you as well.
Ray
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