Sydney Dundee

Sydney Dundee asked Veronica Roth:

Were there any real cultures that inspired the fictional ones we see in the Carve the Mark series?

Veronica Roth No, I very much wanted to build unfamiliar cultures. Every culture in the CtM universe shares a common, varied origin, which is how you get someone who looks like Teka as a Shotet as well as, say, Jorek.

The Shotet language is loosely based on Hungarian, probably thanks to all the time I've spent among Hungarian-speakers in Romania. "Akos" is a Hungarian name, which is significant because of [BOOK 2 SPOILER REDACTED], and I believe it's the only intentionally unaltered Hungarian word/name in the series, though I have heard from some Hungarian readers who picked up on the similarities! I love the language and how it sounds, so I'm glad they heard/saw it.

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Gray

Gray asked Veronica Roth:

I read your Divergent series a little bit ago and I remember enjoying them. Is your Carve the Mark series similar?

Josephine

Josephine asked Veronica Roth:

One more question (a hypothetical): What would the characters in Chosen Ones be doing during quarantine if they were in our reality?

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A Goodreads user asked Veronica Roth:

Hi Veronica! ! I was wondering how you manage to find a good idea for a book and then how to take it into words (how you execute it) wether you plan it all out or see were it takes you. I find when I am writing I can never find the right ideas and get stuck in tricky parts in the story and can’t tell what is relevant to the story or not? How to keep the book going?

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