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L.J. McDonald is the author of the wonderful novels „Battle Sylph“ (Die Krieger der Königin), „The Shattered Sylph“ (Die Krieger der Königin: Falkenherz) and „Queen of Sylphs“ (Die Krieger der Königin: Schattenmacht; coming in August in Germany). (Photo: Copyright Kevin Daly) Thank you for taking the time for this interview. The world of the Sylph is very wide and complex. How did you come up with that? It came from a lot of daydreaming and the merging of disparate ideas. The sylphs came from the ideas of power and control that I wanted to explore and the desire to write shapeshifters and the like. It didn’t come from any one idea. How do you keep track of all the rituals, hierarchies and traditions that are part of this world? […]

Alexis Morgan is the author of the wonderful paranormal series about the Paladins, mighty protectors of our world who battle against the Others coming from behind the border every time the earth shakes. Her series has now been published in Germany and fascinated the readers. (Photo: Copyright Glen Sayes, Lumina Photography) Thank you for taking the time for this interview. Your Paladin-series has been a hit in America. In Germany we’ve started with it so we don’t know very much about the world of the Others, yet. How did you come up with the idea of a border between the worlds? Long before I actually came up with the idea for the Paladins, I knew there was a warrior moving around in the back of my mind.  Even though I didn’t know much about him at first, I kept seeing him fighting at the edge of light and dark. I’ve always been interested in geology, so when I decided that the light was actually a barrier between our world and another, it seemed logical that it could be damaged by either earthquakes or volcanoes.  Here in the Pacific Northwest, we live along a fault line, and there are five volcanoes in my state, including Mount St. Helens that blew up in 1980. Which aspects do you find fascinating when you think about the Paladins? […]