Would you ever write historical fiction about a real historical figure? Anything based on the Salem witch trials? Non-magical/modern AUs of your favourite fantasy/period pieces? Anything that actually involved an evil doll?
1. Maybe? It would have to be someone I had LOTS of letters or a journal from, so I could feel like I had a solid fix on their personality. Possibly the wife from Museum Job.
2. Probably not. I feel like it’s been rehashed so many times that I can’t imagine I have much to contribute. However, a historical fiction story about another part of Salem’s history...like a shipping magnate’s haunted manse and the dark secret hidden in a sea chest in the attic...maybe.
3. I’m toying with a no-magic AU for Motherland: Fort Salem. Or, well. A real-world magic AU. Where the characters all live in Real Salem and, coincidentally, practice magic.
(Scylla works at the Witch Village Museum running those hokey “be part of a spell done by a real witch!” tours. She loves nothing more than hamming it up for tourists. Tally is an education intern at the Phillips House Museum and very crystals-and-white-light. Raelle practices a Christian-based form of hereditary magic; she’s an EMT. Abigail is a rich, overachieving Harvard student and a fairly classic Wiccan, taking a summer off to recover from a breakdown after her cousin’s murder.)
(Can you tell I really miss Salem?)
4. Only if it was like...a Baby Laughs-A-Lot, and a brave, noble 19th century doll had to save the human protagonist from it.