Goodreads asked Molly Ringle:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Molly Ringle Easy: from Greek mythology! Like many kids, I had a book of Greek myths when I was little, and was fascinated by them. And, like many grown-up people, I found that the myth of Persephone kidnapped by Hades and turned into the Queen of the Underworld was the one that stayed alive longest in my mind. It has everything--marriage, crime, family, seasons, magic, the land of the dead--but it's also full of ambiguities and unanswered questions, which makes it rich for any novelist to take on and explain as she will.

I'm not the only one to do so, though when I first started a draft of the story that eventually became Persephone's Orchard, I didn't realize how popular an idea it would someday become. Still, the popularity of it only encouraged me, because none of us will tell the tale in the same exact way, especially when we expand it to novel length. I love seeing the various ways in which different writers have made a myth their own new story. It's a tradition I hope to keep working in for a while yet.

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