Braidee Otto

I'm just an obsessive writer.

So, you know, like as soon as I would wake up, I would be typing in my notes app and any time I would have a break at work or on my lunch break or like...

if it was a bit quiet at work.

Hopefully they don't watch this.

But like in any spare moment and pretty much from the moment I got back from work until 3, 4 o'clock in the morning and then I'd have a quick two-hour nap before I got up to go to work.

My God.

Yeah, so unfortunately not a fast rider, just an obsessed rider.

I mean, we could.

My schedule for the other books, though, it was pretty tight.

So like maybe after the Myths series.

In like 2028, that's when you can sleep.

Yeah, yeah.

But then I do need to write something to pitch after this.

So maybe after that.

Yeah, so I think, like, I was quite selective, I suppose.

One of the, like, of course, because it's not a retelling, it's not kind of really firmly set within a Greek mythos kind of structure or anything like that, but there were just particular things that I took inspiration from.

And one of the things that inspired the world building was the

actually poetry, so it was, I think, Pithy 13 by the Greek lyric poet Pindar, and in that he referenced, like, this hidden kingdom called, I think it's called Hyperborea.

I kind of went down the researching path of that, but he didn't specifically mention that within the poem.

He mentioned this place where the fortunate ones lived, and that's what Taisha Roy in the book still, like, means with...