What impelled me to write the Legacy series (Legacy, Poison, Seduction)
was magic. That is, I needed magic because nothing else in my life was working.
At one point a few
years ago, everything I cared about seemed to vanish. My marriage ended, even
though I was still in love with my husband. My mother died. My sister stopped
talking to me. My son went to college. Wanting to run away from my life, I sold
my house and moved to a distant state where I didn’t know anyone. And in the
worst decision I ever made, I stopped writing.
I’d been pretty
successful up till then, with a couple of bestsellers (Grandmaster, The Forever King),
but none of that seemed to matter at the time. It was the low point of my life,
when I was full of questions and had no answers to any of them.
Searching for some of
those answers, I went into therapy, talked to clergy members, experimented with
a lot of unusual New Age modalities, and started reading about Wicca, which I
discovered was not a satanic cult of wicked hags, but a way of thinking that
embraces the sacredness of the earth, the value of women, and the possibility
of magic.
Well, why not? I thought. Why couldn’t magic exist to
counterbalance all the horrible things that people do? That’s when I got the
idea for the Darkness, the distillation of pure evil that’s at the center of
the Legacy books.
The first time I
thought of Katy, I pictured her riding a bus on her way to stay with relatives
she didn’t know, who would turn out to be nice, normal people who happened to
possess a host of strange and wonderful abilities… Witches, in the way I’d come
to understand them.
For the first time
since my troubles began, I wanted to write again. I wrote about magic, but it
was the writing that saved me. I think that was
the magic.
And that’s how Legacy was born.
POISON (Legacy, #2) By: Molly Cochran
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Release Date:
December 4th, 2012
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About the author:
Molly Cochran, author of the teen paranormal romances LEGACY and
POISON, has written 26 published novels and four nonfiction books under her own
name and various pseudonyms. Her books include New York Times bestselling
novels GRANDMASTER and THE FOREVER KING, coauthored with Warren Murphy, and the
nonfiction DRESSING THIN, also a NY Times bestseller. She has won awards from
the Mystery Writers of America (Best Novel of the Year), the Romance Writers of
America (Best Thriller), and the New York Public Library (Outstanding Books for
the Teen Age).
SEDUCTION, the third installment in the LEGACY series, is scheduled
for release later this year through her publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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