I am constantly inspired by visuals. I created a digital “moodboard” when I was working on the story for Tough Luck, even when it formerly didn’t contain any Irish mythology.

Here’s some of the images I used to grasp what my characters looked like. I used these as a springboard for my imagination to be able to visualize the story in my head.

Images of Sean (formally Henry in my original draft)… and eventually the book cover model.

Nehemiah.

I was never quite sure about his age wh...