How do you get into the right mindset to sit down and write such dark material? In Ninth House, there are gruesome depictions of violence, its aftermath and dead bodies. The more I peeled back the layers, the more I discovered, and so it wasn’t really a difficulty so much as it was a different kind of exploration than what I had done in writing secondary world fantasy. It has this extraordinary history full of strange stories and mysteries. However, I was very lucky, because as it turns out New Haven is a city that rewards the people who get to know it. There were certainly inconveniences of distance and understanding the map of New Haven that came into play. It is a challenge to write in the real world once you’ve had the advantage of being able to create your own world.
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