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- You just said that this
is your first epic fantasy.

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- Mm-hm.
- And it's a trilogy.

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- It is.
- What makes this

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an epic fantasy?
- Ooh, great question.

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Well, I think it is a epic fantasy

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in the sense that it is
a newly-created world.

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So all the books that I've written before

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are historical fantasy.

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They're very much based in a real place.

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They engage with real politics

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that have occurred in the past.

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And in a way, work with the
existing historical timeline.

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Even though "Immortal
Longings" does take from,

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it takes inspiration
from both Kalenwotsity

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and the rise of the Roman Empire,

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it mushes it together in a
way that's completely made up.

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So I describe it as a fantasy

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in that I got to create my own world.

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I got to create the rules.

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I got to create the like
geographic landscape

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and how people travel from
one place to the other.

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And the entire course of history

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that the characters know,
that might be a lie.

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I get to build the layers

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of what do I know, what
do the readers know,

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what do the readers know
in book one, and book two,

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and book three?

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And so on and so forth.

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My name is Chloe Gong.

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This is my book, "Immortal Longings."

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It is coming out July 18th,

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and you can find it in any
good bookstore near you.

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Or you can find it online.

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And order it to your house.

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