A warm welcome to author Macy Blake joining us to talk about her popular and succesful series, “The Chosen One”
What do you get when you mix men and mythology? The Chosen One!
I can’t tell you how many memes I’ve seen with pie charts that break down an authors day. Many of them have the tiniest sliver for actual writing time. I have to confess that it’s true, especially when you’re writing a universe with its own mythology.
Sawyer Smith doesn’t even know the supernatural world exists when he’s thrown into the deep end of it. There are creatures from myth and legend all around him— dragons, vampires, fae, griffins, mages, and more— and he has to learn to navigate a new landscape without a lot of time to spare.
But that’s what makes all the research fun. I spent two years finding ways to incorporate myths and legends from all around the world into the Chosen Universe. There are notebooks of research! It all comes together in the end when I’m able to place some mysterious creature directly into the universe and make their history make sense.
In Nothing Gained, the fourth book in the Chosen Universe, Sawyer still has a lot to learn about the supernatural— including finding the final guardians who are all his mates. Then there’s that whole pesky Goddess business, but that’s a myth and legend for another day.
So what do you think? Do you love mythology as much as I do? Do you love finding little tidbits of myths and legend in your stories? Or do you prefer for all the research to disappear into the world and not really think about it? I think if I’ve done my job well, you don’t even realize how many creatures you’ve met until after you close the book and start thinking about it.
If Sawyer and his world sounds interesting to you, you can find out more about them here: http://bit.ly/ChosenBooks
The Chosen One Series by Macy Blake
Nothing Gained
book 4 released July 23rd, 2019
Blurb:
Sawyer Smith’s life is a hot mess.
Hot, because he’s found six of his eight mates. To say things are heating up between them is putting it mildly.
A mess, because he’s the Chosen One, the son of a goddess with no powers of his own, tasked with fixing the broken magic in his world… and he has no clue how to do it.
With every new layer of mystery that’s revealed, Sawyer’s doubts about his abilities get stronger. To complicate matters, Sawyer is growing weaker by the day. Meanwhile, his newest guardian, the one he’s calling Yellow Eyes, refuses to reveal himself.
With time running out, Sawyer’s desperate enough to make a daring move — one that’s potentially deadly for him and his mates. Because at the end of the day, if there’s nothing ventured… there’s Nothing Gained.
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