Marissa chats with Isabel Ibañez about her YA fantasy duology - WOVEN IN MOONLIGHT and WRITTEN IN STARLIGHT - as well as how family stories and history can contribute to your research and add a deeply personal element to the storytelling process; developing strong character arcs when your protagonist's world views are being constantly challenged; using revisions to highlight powerful themes and bring them to the story's surface; and the very cool anomaly of an author designing and illustrating their own cover art. There's also a bit of clever editing as Marissa tries to get spoilers for a possible third book!

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