" I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it was really helpful to think about the way you can use language. When you're writing about faeries, you can't call anyone " fey" ; there are certain words that become forbidden because they're actualized in what faeries do. When you write about vampires, you could think the same way about things like the word " red" or " hunger" --it's interesting to think of the ways that the words have double meanings, or different meanings that shifted. "