So I turned to the writing community and really got plugged in with “Book Twitter” and learned about the writing and pitching events like DVPit, PitMad, and Pitchwars. ![]() I started writing BOP in May 2015 and then I was traveling, starting my first adult job then in fall 2018 I moved to a new town where I knew absolutely nobody and it was scary and no one tells you in your early 20s how scary it is to move to a new town without a built-in friend group like you would in college or high school and you’re alone. Can you describe what the querying process was like for you? I heard that your querying journey was pretty extraordinary. Those two things came together and it got me thinking but it took years for that initial spark to become a story and it changed over time as I learned more and wanted to talk about more in the story. West Africa was the heart of a lot of decolonization efforts so there’s a lot of that political power felt there. We were going all over the country from top to bottom and following this traditional path that slaves actually took from northern Ghana in the desert almost all the way to the coast, to the door of no return. So that stayed with me and a few months later I studied abroad in Ghana as part of my other degree in African American studies and I was. The person who has power tells the story and that can change how things are perceived. When I was a junior in college, I took a class called political violence where we were studying and evaluating notorious figures in history and moral relativism, who the heroes are in history and who the villains are, and how that has a lot to do with who has power. ![]() I was wondering when was the moment you decided this was the story you wanted to write and query? ![]() I saw that the idea for BOP came from a collection of experiences you tucked away in your mind for later, including going to Ghana. Today we’re excited to welcome Ayana Gray to the WNDB blog to discuss Beasts of Prey!
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