It can be the loss of a dream, or the loss of the life you thought you would have, the loss of health, or many other things that cause us grief and pain. Loss doesn’t always have to be death, either. I have experienced loss in many forms throughout my life and Alexa’s story actually taught me so much about dealing with those losses. Her story definitely stemmed from a place of loss, and that had a major impact on these books. Did her story parallel a time in your own life that you drew upon? However, I’ve always been fascinated by the jungle and loved THE POISONWOOD BIBLE as a teenager, so I’m sure that was somewhere in my subconscious, waiting to come out!ģ. How did you decide on that setting?Īs I said above, the world pretty much came to me how it was, without forethought.
The Defy trilogy is set in a medieval kingdom surrounded by jungle.
It became a story of survival and moving forward, a story of what true courage and strength is, and a story about the many different kinds of love, and hope (even in the most desperate of situations) and risking everything for the chance of a better future.Ģ. I threw myself into that writing and from there the story took on its own life. This whole fascinating world unraveled itself and I realized Alexa had a very intriguing, difficult, but ultimately amazing story that needed to be told. I sat down and wrote a scene, not intending for it to go anywhere…but then I got curious about the characters. I was so upset by his death that I couldn’t write anything, but a friend of mine told me to stop trying to write a book and just write what I was feeling. DEFY came from a very difficult period in my life, when I lost someone I loved.
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