Episode Details

🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where alternate realities hide deadly secrets, skin-to-skin contact can unleash dangerous magic, and sometimes the murder you are solving is your own.

This week, host Bethany Amanda and Mythic Mic Team Member Amara sit down with bestselling indie fantasy romance author Eva Chase to discuss her newest why-choose urban fantasy, Bloom and Blood!

Eva shares her journey from telling stories before she could write to building a decade-long indie publishing career. She opens up about writing four to five books each year, choosing which ideas are ready to become full series, and why connecting with the right readers matters more than trying to create a book everyone will love.

We also dive into Bloom and Blood, where struggling outcast Elodie is pulled into a parallel reality and forced to impersonate her wealthy, privileged other self—who has just been murdered. To uncover the truth, she must survive a brutal magic academy, investigate her own death, and avoid four men who do not realize they are her fated mates. Eva discusses the alternate-universe inspiration behind the story, the dangerous magic activated through fated-mate bonds, and why everyone at the academy wears gloves to prevent accidental skin-to-skin contact. She also teases deeper mysteries, growing relationships, and more alternate realities to come.

🩸 What happens when the murder you are investigating is your own?
✨ Can you become someone new without escaping the choices of your past?
🧤 And how do you avoid your fated mates when one touch could change everything?

This is a must-listen for why-choose romance readers, magic-academy fans, murder-mystery lovers, and anyone obsessed with parallel universes, second chances, and dangerously complicated bonds.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ Eva’s decade-long indie publishing career and lifelong love of storytelling.
✨ Why "why choose" is a relationship structure rather than a genre.
✨ Creating different heroes and found-family dynamics within one romance.
✨ Writing four to five books each year while avoiding burnout.
✨ Letting go of perfectionism and focusing on the emotions readers remember.
✨ Elodie’s journey into a parallel reality where her other self has been murdered.
✨ Academy rivals, a magical-mafia heir, a resentful professor, and a lost best friend.
✨ Fated-mate bonds activated through skin-to-skin contact.
✨ Gloves, graduation balls, and dangerous magical powers known as glims.
✨ Second chances, identity, past mistakes, and whether fate can be changed.
✨ What readers can expect from the expanding mystery in book two.
✨ Eva’s ideal harem size, supernatural research, special editions, and rapid-fire chaos.

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📚 Eva Chase – @AuthorEvaChase

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