Author Mandy Jackson-Beverly on How Her Novella Evolved to Fit Her Book Series

Author, teacher, writing coach, and speaker Mandy Jackson-Beverly’s novella, The Legend of Astridr: Birth , started out as a slightly different story. It began as a fairy tale inspired by her time working on a film shoot in South America. The story’s setting and characters were later adapted to fit more in line with Jackson-Beverly’s The Creatives Series. When she first started writing the series, Jackson-Beverly considered using the novella as a prologue, but was urged by an editor to save it for...