The Origins of Forged by Fate
What if all the gods lived, and all mythology was true?
That’s where Forged by Fate started, from that big what
if question I’ve been fighting with since childhood, when I asked my mother if
the Olympians were the black sheep of God’s family – cousins and nieces and
nephews, related distantly and never invited for dinner. (She said no, and I
still remember feeling somehow disappointed. Sunday school was fine, but it
would have been a lot more interesting with some Greek gods thrown into the
mix.)
What if all the gods were real? What if all the different
myths were just stories from other worlds, and what if all those different gods
were brought together under one roof. After all, my inner-self argued, if ONE
religion is true, if even ONE god actually exists, then that could mean there
are others. That could mean they’re all out there, somewhere, arguing over who
gets what and plotting to kick one another out if they don’t get their way.
But that wasn’t the only idea that made Forged by Fate
what it is today. Distinct from this idea of mythology coming to life, there
was another, pestering question in the back of my mind. What if there was a
woman who lived, life after life, over and over again, witnessing history
generation after generation.
How that woman became Eve, I don’t recall – only that she
went through several (re)incarnations (ha!) before I settled there. But it was
always a woman, not-quite-mortal, and the family she had claimed throughout
history meeting her again in the present. And once that woman became Eve, in a
world where all the gods lived, and all mythology was true, I couldn’t very
well ignore Adam.
Forged by Fate is the result of a mish-mash of ideas that
somehow, through no conscious intent of my own, all came together into this
big, beautiful tapestry of all the things I loved most.
And really, if you’re going to write a book, why would
you have it any other way?
Wow, this book sounds really interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm going to add it to my TBR. :)
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