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🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where sometimes the heroine doesn't defeat the villain. Sometimes she becomes one.

This week, hosts Sara Santillan and Amara sit down with J.E. Caroline to discuss The Venom in Her Veins, a dark romantasy about a cursed fae woman fated to destroy the world and the dragon prince destined to kill her before she can.

🐍 What if your favorite romantasy heroine became the villain and loved it?
🐉 What happens when the man destined to kill you falls in love with you first?
🖤 And just how far can grief, rage, and darkness push a heroine before there's no going back?

If you love villain arcs, cursed heroines, dragon shifters, feminine rage, touch-her-and-die romance, slow burn, dark fantasy, deadly magic, morally gray characters, and heroes willing to burn the world for their girl, this episode is for you.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ Going from full-time motherhood and rediscovering reading to writing and independently publishing her debut novel.
✨ The chaotic reality of indie publishing for the first time and what Jessica wishes she'd known before jumping in.
✨ Why Jessica abandoned the traditional hero's journey and asked: what if the heroine became the villain instead?
✨ Creating Verena, a cursed fae woman fated to destroy the world she's desperately trying to save.
✨ Ronan, the dragon prince destined to kill Verena who makes the very inconvenient mistake of falling in love with her first.
✨ Villain arcs, feminine rage, grief, trauma, and what happens when a character's moral balance is pushed too far.
✨ Building a dark and beautiful world of fractured kingdoms, cursed forests, deadly monsters, hidden secrets, and inevitable betrayals.
✨ The slow-burn romance, touch-her-and-die devotion, and a hero willing to burn the world for Verena or right alongside her.
✨ The inspiration behind Verena's venomous curse and why viper imagery became central to her transformation.
✨ What's coming next, including more trauma in Book Two, a dystopian romance, and a future prequel exploring the gods behind Verena's world.

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👤 Sara Santillan – @the_magical_quill
📚 J.E. Caroline – @J.E.Caroline.Author

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