Salamandre Page 6
“We meet Kasper’s father, Swann Salamandre, who is based on my own father. My parents divorced when I was quite young, and I only ever heard tall tales about him as I was growing up so the version you see here is very much the embodiment of tall tales. There are really only two characters based directly on people I knew in this book, three if you count me. The rest are either amalgamations of various people I’ve encountered over the course of my life or entirely fictitious.”
“I wanted this to be a small coastal community, so I looked at a lot of Mediterranean coastal towns for inspiration. The statue is that of a saint, likely the St. Nicolas after whom the body of water he gazes out upon takes its name. I figured that the religion of this story world might concern itself more with the stories of saints.”
