"Let's talk about worldbuilding. From the first chapter, you create this fascinating world called Twelve Towns in which these witchlings are trying to navigate their way – specifically Seven Salazar – in anticipation of the Black Moon Ceremony. How much time did you take to create this world?

I’m still creating it because it’s a series. Research is always a really big part of my writing process. I would say the whole time that I was drafting the book, I was also working on worldbuilding as things came up. Up until I turned in my copy edits, I was toying with things; I came up with the measuring system at the tail end of editing Book One, which is toadstools." -Clarabel Ortega, (dominicanwriters.org)