Today we are joined by author Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer was recently published in the Morrigan Books dark fantasy anthology The Phantom Queen Awakes along with best-selling authors Anya Bast, C.E. Murphy and more. Below, she gives us some insight into what inspired and led her to submit to the anthology.
“I originally stumbled across a call for submissions for this anthology in a community on LiveJournal that centered around the Morrigan. I’m familiar with the Morrigan from a life-long love of the different mythologies of the world. Additionally, roughly three-quarters of my ancestry is rooted in Ireland and Scotland, the ancient home of the Morrigan. I’ve known since I was fairly young (14 or 15, perhaps) that the Catholic faith I was brought up in wasn’t a good fit for me. It wasn’t that I didn’t necessarily believe in those things; it was more that they didn’t sing to me. I could believe in them the same way that I could believe that the earth revolved around the sun, but they didn’t inspire me with the deep faith that so many saints and mystics have written of. Read more
Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.
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