She said, “It was a way to escape from stress.
I also asked what kept her going during this whole process. When I asked her what caused the plotline of MYTHOS to come to mind, she said this: “(I started) writing the outline for Mythos and Beyond Legend (due to) boredom in creative writing class during my tenth grade year.” Further questioning elicited the response that MYTHOS has been in development in one fashion or another for twenty years. McLaren, which has led me to discover that she - like me - believes in the power of persistence.
I’ve had several e-mail discussions with Ms. Further, it has the age-old conflict that two lovers must face once they truly know each other: Will they stay together despite it all, or will they end up apart? MYTHOS features a great cover (as you see) and an interesting way to bring the myth of Atlantis to modern-day readers. When she tells him who and what she is - and he gets over the shock - many, many consequences befall them. However, she’s a mermaid from secretive Atlantis, which still exists. David Conley goes to the Bahamas and falls in love with Faren Sands, all the while thinking she’s a normal, nonmagical woman. The first, MYTHOS, is a debut urban fantasy by Illinois writer Heather McLaren (pictured at right). nor would I wish to, excepting the fact that three new young adult titles by Heather McLaren, Dina von Lowencraft and Scott Eder have been released by Twilight Times Books (TTB for short). (Dec.Folks, it’s not every day I can come up with an alliterative title like the one above. Unfortunately, good intentions and inventive strokes of worldbuilding can’t disguise the familiarity of the basic story elements. Lowenkraft seasons her tale with a critique of the abusive relationships seen in popular works like the Twilight series. This revelation forces Rakan to choose between duty to his family-which demands the death of Anna’s friend June-and duty to what he knows is right. There idealist Rakan encounters teen human Anna, whose connection to the mission emerges only after the two have fallen in love. Though nearly driven to extinction by war, the Draak are still consumed with old vendettas when evidence surfaces that supposed war criminal Paaliaq is still alive, young half-siblings Rakan and Dvara are sent to northern Norway to track down Paaliaq, no matter the cost. In Lowenkraft’s science fantasy novel, the Draak, alien shape-shifting dragons inhabit the Earth unbeknownst to humans, whom they regard as cattle to be exploited.
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