She was a woman who felt an incredible connection to the sea and often wrote very poignantly about how she loved it, but “Inland” is unique in that it addresses her horror of being taken away from the water. I wouldn’t know where to begin writing a book like that - the idea of constructing an entire fantasy world is incredibly daunting to me - but I kept wondering if there might be a way through those books to the kind of story I did want to tell.Īt that point, I began thinking a lot about a poem, “Inland,” by Edna St. When I first started circling the idea of this book, it was because I was trying to put my own twist on the supernatural romances which, for better or for worse, are such a staple of YA.
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