But once I figured it out, the world sort of grew through the doorway. It was early on, there was this door in Brimstone’s shop, and I didn’t know where it went until Karou opened it at first. As for the other world, that just really grew out of the writing and figuring out with the story. When I did finish the book, I ended up going to Morocco so that is where the setting for “Days of Blood and Starlight” came, from having gone to southern Morocco and gone to Kasbah. I had a bit of an obsession with Morocco at the time, so that is why I included Morocco. It’s a real contemporary city where teenagers are having their normal lives, yet it has this aspect of a gothic fairy tale. It was as if all this stuff I hadn’t used in the other book had just been waiting around all these years perfectly. When I got around to writing later, writing “Daughter of Smoke and Bone,” it just clicked perfectly. So we went and we spent a couple days in Prague researching this other book and we didn’t end up doing it. This was pre-Twilight, when vampires weren’t such a thing, I mean they’re always a thing, but not such a thing. It would have been our second graphic novel. We were going to do a graphic novel about vampires. Laini Taylor: Well, I had been to Prague a while back in 2004 with my husband to research a different book.
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