![]() ![]() Things like finding your identity, creating relationships and the struggles we go through to maintain those relationships. I also gained a lot of inspiration from Korean dramas with contain tropes that overlap a lot with YA. But take a predator like that and put them in a time period where no one travels by foot across mountains anymore, how would they evolve to survive? I imagined that they would go where the most prey are and use the crowded city of Seoul to hide in plain sight. ![]() But, of course, the stories were about foxes who lived in secluded mountain homes and preyed on travelers that no one would miss (or they'd just assume they died while climbing the mountain as people could do back in the day). Because I grew up hearing some Korean myths, the story of the gumiho was familiar to me. I have always loved the idea of exploring morally gray areas when an immortal creature must kill to survive, but so often it was the boy character and set in a Western world. The Book Bratz: Where did your inspiration for WICKED FOX come from? Now she must navigate a new unlikely friendship-turned-romance and figure out if immortality is worth killing for. Kat: Set in Modern-Day Seoul, Miyoung is a gumiho-a 9-tailed fox that must kill to survive-she lives by keeping under the radar until the day she saves a human boy from a dokkaebi (Korean goblin) and exposes her secret. ![]() The Book Bratz: Where did your idea for WICKED FOX come from? ![]()
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