Ask Red Tash discussion

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Not a whole lot of authors write troll books. Why'd you choose trolls?

Faize wrote: "Not a whole lot of authors write troll books. Why'd you choose trolls?"

Thanks for asking, Faize.

Honestly, at the time I started writing Troll Or Derby, I knew I wanted something in the realm of fae. In my opinion trolls were not an area that had been written to death. YES, there are a million fairy series for teens now, but having a troll counterpart to the fairy personality was something that hadn't been done before, and to me the two species are like two sides of the same coin.

Fairies are light and whimsical (and sometimes mean), and trolls are heavy (legends say they turn to stone, right?), large, and ferocious. I thought "What if I made the troll the *nice guy*?" and it all just sort of flowed from there.

I actually decided to make the book about fairies first, but as soon as I added Harlow the troll, the plot took off!