Tell us about Oop & Lila. How did the idea of the adventurous book happen?
‘Oop & Lila’ came together from three different ideas : a bag of 99 wish candies; adventures based on magical snow globes, with each snow globe having different scenes that lead to different magical worlds ; and the desire to have a brother-sister pairing as my main characters. The wish candies and the magical snow globes actually were on my ideas list, an ongoing list where I jot down any idea that comes to me. The idea could be a film or a book, a whole plot or theme, or just bits of dialogue or titles that I like. Over time some ideas come together quite spontaneously and bloom into a story - which is what happened with ‘Oop & Lila’.
I had wanted to explore the brother-sister dynamic in more detail for some time, and it fit with my other two elements perfectly. With these main three elements together all I needed was an epic setting for a snow globe adventure, and the Golden Age of Piracy was perfect for that, with my own personal twist, of course.
How different are the plotsetting and story mapping in Oop & Lila from your previous book ‘Warrior’ as it is based on traces of stories from mythology?
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