Thorn Jack: A Night and Nothing Novel
1) I sometimes wish Thorn Jack's subtitle could be Thorn Jack: It's Not Twilight (No offense to the lovely Stephanie Meyers, who also touched on the Beauty and the Beast trope)

2) HallowHeart College: The more eccentric classes were inspired by actual courses from colleges. (At least I didn't use the Buffy the Vampire Slayer course)Since the dean and a select group of professors know about the Fatas, some of the courses were designed to instruct the students on otherworldly subjects.
The characters are freshman, one summer removed from being high school seniors. There are mean girls and idiots in college. Some of them are in sororities and fraternities.

3) Moving to a New Town: Although it's a well-worn trope, I wanted a fish-out-of-water story. I love it when a character is discovering their surroundings and everything is new.

4) The Demon Lover: Jack begins as the elf knight, the fairy tale beast, the dangerous element. His first encounter with Finn is his attempting to enchant her, until the moth key snaps her out of it. As the story moves on, she becomes less intrigued by his otherworldliness and more in love with his humanity.

5) Thorn Jack, Briar Queen, and Nettle King are a story arc about losing a loved one. The first book is about the shock and depression. The second book is about magical thinking. The third book is ...well about acceptance of death.

6) 'Emory' is ivy. An autocorrect mistake (Not mine or my editor's!) made at the last minute when a character's last name was changed from ivy to Emory. It was fixed in the trade paperback and future ebook editions.


Nettle King
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