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Before we get started today, make sure to check out the amazing blogs of today’s hosts for the blog tour!
Alyssa is giving a review today.
In an interview with Emily, she gets me to admit that I’m not a faery. 😉
Rachael Ritchey is hosting a spotlight on Adela herself!
Alea invited me over to guest post and I look at reasons to write fantasy.
And, guys! It’s RELEASE DAY!
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Ok! Today, I thought I’d talk a little bit about what inspired Adela’s Curse and some things that influenced the story itself.
I’ve talk about the actual inspiration in some upcoming interviews, but basically I woke up one morning and the image of a faery in a forest glade popped into my head. Was it Adela? No, actually. If you read the spotlight on Damian yesterday, you’ll find out it was him! So when I sat down to brainstorm and figure out who this faery was and what had brought him to the clearing, I eventually discovered Adela and her story.
Has this happened to any of you writers out there?
Next, here’s a few of the things that influenced Adela’s Curse!

Here’s my very battered copy of Ella Enchanted which I love dearly.
I still love this story, so it’s no wonder I have to credit it when writing a story about a girl who gets put under a spell and has to do everything that she is ordered. Don’t worry, Adela get’s a happy ending. Or does she? *evil laugh*

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
So, there’s a part in Adela’s Curse where I thought I was being so original and creative and then like three days later I realized “omg, that’s from Tangled”. But I think that’s pretty much the writer’s life, right?

Shakespeare helping with minor characters.
This one kind of inspired two minor characters. They bicker back and forth but really secretly like each other. I had just written a scene between the two of them and realized they are really similar to Beatrice and Benedick. Which isn’t a bad thing, since Much Ado is hilarious and I happen to really like my characters. 🙂
I’m sure there’s more things that influenced my subconscious while writing, but these are the biggies.
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Also, feel kinda bad about this, but I realized that I gave you the wrong blog address. I actually am doing the review on my other blog. Sorry! Here’s the link: https://readinganyone.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/shes-currrrrsed/
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No worries! I’ve got it all fixed in the schedule. Thanks!!
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Ideas always come to me in weird ways, I love the movies that inspired you, can’t wait to read your book!
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Thanks, Skye! Glad you’re interested in the book. 😀 Thanks for stopping by!
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Woo hoo. Congratulations! 🙂
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Lol, usually I get snippets and have to figure out the story from there. Must be the authors’ curse . . .
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Must be. 🙂
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Congrats on the release! I adore Ella Enchanted AND Tangled. (Rapunzel’s frying pan has found its way into a lot of my stories, strangely.) 🙂
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Haha! Is that a bad thing though?
Thanks!! 🙂
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It depends. 😀
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That’s happened to me quite a few times, thinking I’m all original and then–wham!–someone else already wrote that. XD Which scene was it in Adela’s Curse that resembled Tangled?
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Well, it involves crying, if that helps. 😉
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Haha, there were several cry moments in Tangled, weren’t there? I need to watch it again; I can’t remember it all. XD
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