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Holly black white cat series5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() In the same way that the mob controlled the booze during Prohibition, crime families control magic. The Curse Workers series posits a world where a small percentage of people have magic, everyone knows magic exists and, in the United States at least, magic is illegal. And then I was thinking of other organizational models and I thought-what about organized crime? You have councils of magic that behave something like corporate boards of directors. ![]() ![]() You have schools of magic, like in Harry Potter. I got the idea for the series when I was thinking about the ways that magicians in books are organized. For the uninitiated, can you explain what curse workers are, and how you came up with the idea for writing about them? Your new book, The Red Glove, is the second installment in the Curse Workers series. ![]() She currently lives in New England with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret door. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), the Modern Faerie Tale series, the Good Neighbors graphic novel trilogy (with Ted Naifeh), and her new Curse Workers series, which begins with White Cat. Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. ![]()
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