Ask the Author: L.S. Young
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L.S. Young
Wow, I really had to mull this one over. I was very close to my mom's side of the family and her mom growing up, but I was thinking the other day about how I don't know my paternal grandmother at all even though I received just as much from her genetically. I look a lot like photos I've seen of her, and yet she's a total mystery to me. I don't even know her cultural background. An aunt told me once that she might've been Irish. She and my mom didn't get along and she died when I was twelve. A search to find identity through a lost relative might be cliché but it seems like it would make an interesting story.
L.S. Young
What inspired Montana Burning, my work in progress, was a dream I had about a woman encountering a man in a corridor at night. There was some mystery and dark desire in it that I wanted to explore. I also wanted to write a boardinghouse romance with two leads who were polar opposites, so it worked out well. The tension between my hero and heroine was in my mind very early on. I also read Naomi Novik's Uprooted before starting this novel, and the prickly, dark-eyed Sarkan had some influence on my hero, Jake.
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