Goodreads asked Shea Hulse:

How do you get inspired to write?

Shea Hulse Irish mythology does most of the heavy lifting. The folklore is genuinely stranger and darker than anything I could invent — ancient kings who were shapeshifters, battles fought with satire instead of swords, gods who kept coming back after dying. I read mythology, something clicks, and suddenly, a plot problem I didn't know I had is solved.

For the emotional layer, the grief, the longing, the "I love you, but you cost me everything" energy, that comes from being a real person who has felt real things. No research required.

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