In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Alison Levy discusses the first two books in her Daemon Collecting fantasy series, Gatekeeper and Blue Flame. In this series, Rachel Wilde is a daemon collector from a dimension parallel to ours. Her job is to catch and repair malfunctioning daemons (creatures out of phase with our world who tempt people to do good or evil). But Rachel uncovers a shadow conspiracy across both dimensions and must battle criminals and dangerous creatures if she wants to save her own life and save both worlds. Alison knew she wanted to write this series, and after several attempts at drafting the first manuscript, she found inspiration for her dark world from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Once she struck upon that aesthetic, the story came together, and the first book, Gatekeeper, was born. In this episode, I’ll chat with Alison about her writing journey, how she works to build her fantasy world until she’s convinced could field questions about it, and how she discovered writing to be self-medication for her anxiety.
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