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🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where arranged marriages become political weapons, deadly magic refuses to stay controlled, and the feared warlord may be the safest person in the room.
This week, host Bethany Amanda and Mythic Mic Team Member Amara sit down with fantasy author Rebecca Robinson to discuss The Serpent and the Wolf, The Wicked and the Damned, and her Dark Inheritance trilogy.
Rebecca shares her journey from high school administrator and lifelong writer to traditionally published author, including balancing deadlines with a full-time career and family. She opens up about finding peace in an imperfect work-life balance, writing at a sustainable pace, spending nine months on submission, and proving that authors can still rise from the traditional query slush pile.
We also dive into The Serpent and the Wolf, where Vasa is married into a rival nation while fighting a deadly magic she cannot control. Her new husband needs a wife to secure his political future and offers to help her master her power in return. Rebecca discusses arranged marriage, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, one-bed proximity, complicated political systems, found family, and writing enemies who oppose one another without treating each other cruelly. She also teases how The Wicked and the Damned forces Vasa to return to the place that harmed her and tests everything she learned about love, safety, and herself.
🐺 What happens when the violent warlord from every whispered warning turns out to be a green flag?
🔥 Can Vasa control the magic threatening her life without surrendering her freedom?
👑 And can an arranged marriage survive when love collides with political ambition, trauma, and rival nations?
This is a must-listen for romantasy readers, arranged-marriage and slow-burn fans, lovers of political intrigue and found family, and anyone who wants enemies-to-lovers without cruelty between the central couple.
🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ Rebecca’s life as an author, mother, high school activities director, and fearless home cook.
✨ Planning proms, rallies, homecomings, and student events while building an author career.
✨ Why writing 500 words a day can still produce a complete novel within a year.
✨ Choosing financial stability while continuing to pursue writing as her greatest passion.
✨ What happens during the year between turning in a manuscript and publication.
✨ Why the second Dark Inheritance manuscript had to be divided into two books.
✨ Querying traditionally and becoming a self-described “slush pile baby.”
✨ Landing her dream agent while seven months pregnant.
✨ Spending nine months on submission before selling the series to Saga Press.
✨ Why indie success is rarely as sudden or effortless as it appears from the outside.
✨ Vasa’s rage, trauma, uncontrolled magic, and arranged marriage into a rival nation.
✨ Writing a democratic and oligarchic political system instead of another monarchy.
✨ Building a fantasy map by throwing snacks onto poster board.
✨ How salt, rivers, and geography shaped the world’s nations and political structures.
✨ Writing enemies who genuinely oppose one another without emotional cruelty.
✨ Arranged marriage, reluctant allies, slow-burn romance, and one-bed tension.
✨ Why love from others can sometimes help someone begin learning to love themselves.
✨ The egotistical new lord Rebecca had to rewrite because she found him far too attractive.
✨ Green-flag heroes, toxic fictional men, dragons, audiobooks, and rapid-fire chaos.
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📚 Rebecca Robinson – @RRobinsonWrites
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