How far would you go to be part of something greater than yourself? My third novel, Here in Avalon, follows two very different sisters as they fall under the spell of a mysterious midnight New York City cabaret troupe that may or may not be a cult, and may or may not be a gateway to another world.
In writing Here in Avalon, I was inspired not only by immersive theatre productions like Sleep No More (which, as I have written before, attract a highly cult-like fandom of their own) but by a rich tradition of novels and stories about ordinary human beings trying—whether through travel, religion, or political experiment—to transcend the seemingly mundane world they’re living in, and to seek enchantment outside their everyday lives.
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