Something that’s interesting is how pieces of me end up in stories without my purposefully putting them in, but when I look back at the story (or, sometimes, when another analyzes it), I see how I subconsciously influenced it. It really stuck with me and begged a novel, and therefore Star Father is releasing in March. I had initially planned Star Mother to be a standalone novel (and in a sense, it is), but after writing that scene, I knew Saiyon needed his story to be told, too. One thing that resonated with me a lot was page 252 of the novel.
The need to belong to a family is what drives Ceris to seek out her sister’s descendants as well, which was partially influenced by my religious focus on genealogy.Īre there any other aspects of this book (themes, characters, situations, aesthetics) that resonate with you in particular?
Though you don’t get to see Ceris actually raise her children, the yearning is there, the aftermath, the emptiness. I definitely could not have written this book without motherhood experience. How have your own experiences as a mother influenced the themes of family and motherhood in Star Mother? (Ceris’s embroidery was directly inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry.) I had also recently taken a trip to Europe, so a lot of the world was inspired by medieval France. I realized another story idea I had (which I can’t mention because it’s a spoiler) would work well with the world, so I stuck it in. Where the sun and other celestial objects were deity. I had thought making love to the Sun was the most unbearable pain I would ever experience.įrom there, I knew I wanted to create a world where this situation existed. Something about it struck me, and the first two lines of the novel wrote themselves in my head: The idea for Star Mother initially came from the original cover of God of the Sun by Kimberly Loth. Where did the idea for Star Mother come from, and what did the worldbuilding process look like?
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