Hi all,
I thought I'd write a blog post about something I've noticed about my books recently; why do so many of them contain gods/goddesses?
I never really thought about how many of my books focus on gods until I really put them together!
Elemental Dragons - dragon gods
Years - Mother Earth
Curse of Anubis - Egyptian gods
Empty Skies - Greek gods
Game of Air and Lightning - Aerus and Bolt
The Severed Pantheon - five goddesses
I think the reason that I gravitate towards gods is because of my love of mythology. I grew up reading and watching loads of Greek and Egyptian mythology. As an adult my interest in mythology has only deepened, and I'm looking into Norse mythology at the moment to write a series.
After reading about mythology for years, I really wanted to try to create my own. Elemental Dragons has been so much fun to create dragon gods and demi-gods and how they all interact with each other. I also want to write more blog posts about Elemental Dragon mythology in the future!
Game of Air and Lightning only had two gods and they had more of a background role. They do appear in the book, but it mostly focuses on Reema's survival.
But with The Severed Pantheon, I've created five brand new goddesses! They will have a direct role in the book and will appear throughout. I'm looking forward to writing more antagonistic gods, as the ones in this book are selfish and are extremely power hungry. The fact that I can write about gods in a new way is very exciting and I'd love to do more of this in the future.
I also have plans to write more books centering around mythology in the future, with a Norse mythology series I'm planning and another one that is still very bare bones at the moment.
For someone who was always told that they write about cats and dragons exclusively, I think it's funny that I've found another niche that I can add to that mix.
That's it for this week, see you next week.