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🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where forbidden magic, ominous prophecies, and ruthless silver-haired warriors are exactly our kind of problem.

This week, host Bethany Amanda sits down with Geneva Lee to discuss Harbinger, a dark, romantic slow-burn fantasy filled with star-powered magic, dangerous omens, political intrigue, forbidden attraction, and enough twists that almost everything is a spoiler.

Geneva takes us behind the scenes of the fantasy world she's been dreaming about for fifteen years, including the astrology-inspired magic system, ancient beliefs about birds and omens, and the influences that helped shape a story she describes as a female-gaze Game of Thrones meets Divergent, Ladyhawke, and The Thorn Birds.

🌙 What happens when an act of mercy awakens a magic that should never have been hers?
🐦‍⬛ What if one woman is believed to be the omen that 500 years of peace is about to end?
🔥 And how are we supposed to resist a ruthless, silver-haired warrior who has sworn his life to duty?

If you love forbidden magic, celestial fantasy, ominous prophecies, ruthless and competent heroes, slow-burn romance, political intrigue, tortured MMCs, dangerous secrets, powerful heroines, and fantasy worlds where nothing is quite what it seems, this episode is for you.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ Geneva's fifteen-year publishing career, and how she got the push to finally write a novel while caring for a newborn and toddler.
✨ The business side of being an author, from contracts and marketing to social media.
✨ Geneva's biggest advice for aspiring and neurodivergent writers.
✨ Why editing has become Geneva's favorite part of the writing process and how even after fifteen years of publishing, she still relies on the editorial process to make each story hit harder.
✨ Creating Harbinger, a dark, ominous, romantic slow burn where almost every revelation is a spoiler, every answer seems to uncover another secret, and readers may want to question everything they think they know.
✨ Building an astrology-inspired magic system where the stars themselves provide power and each noble bloodline draws its magic from a different constellation.
✨ The ancient history behind the book's birds and omens, Geneva's fascination with augury, and why one seemingly small choice involving a raven-like bird may be far more important than readers initially realize.
✨ Why Geneva loves tortured heroes who occasionally reveal the person they might have been before terrible things happened to them.
✨ The deeper themes beneath Harbinger, including grief, fate, powerlessness, the choices we make versus the choices taken from us, and what it means to keep choosing to rise when hope feels impossible.
✨ Expanding Harbinger from a planned trilogy into a series of at least five books, Geneva's refusal to rush the next installment, and why the infamous “Queen of Cliffhangers” has absolutely no intention of giving up her devastating endings.
✨ Plus: sword fighting, sword yoga, future dagger-throwing ambitions, whether Geneva could survive her own fantasy world, the bloodline she'd choose for herself, why readers may need multiple boxes of tissues, and the Filthy Rich Vampires crossover that could cause absolute chaos.

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👤 Sara Santillan – @the_magical_quill
📚 Geneva Lee – @Genevaleebooks

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