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The Midnight Bloom: How a Childhood Nightmare Became a Dark Fairy Tale
In this IndieBookStories feature, Seraphina Lux lifts the curtain on the origin of "The Midnight Bloom" – why it had to be written, and the moment real life collided with fiction.
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"The character came to me in a dream, whispering a single line. I woke up and wrote for three days straight, fueled by coffee and a story that needed to be told."
Eleanor Vance
Author of 'The Whispering City'
"I spent a decade researching forgotten maps. This book is the culmination of that journey, a love letter to the places that history tried to erase."
Marcus Thorne
Author of 'The Cartographer's Son'
"After losing my job, I moved into a tiny cabin with just a typewriter. The forest became my muse, and its silence taught me how to find my own voice."
Isla Chen
Author of 'The Root and the Sky'
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