The busy city in the throes of cultural change made the perfect backdrop for Yvette’s story as she struggles to figure out what kind of witch she was meant to be. The first, of course, was Elena’s story amongst the vineyards, but for book two I moved the story to the streets of Paris where art scene and cabarets flourished at the end of the Belle Époque period. I also had this idea to sync my magic system with quintessential aspects of turn-of-the-century France-wine, art, and perfume. So…I had to come up with a plan, and the most appealing to me was the continued story of the three women who meet in the witch’s prison and the sisterhood of magic they form as a result. I didn’t have a grand plan for continuing the story beyond that original plot, but once the novel had been acquired by the publisher and received some positive in-house feedback, my editor asked for two more novels. I initially wrote The Vine Witch as a stand-alone novel.
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