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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary

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V.E. Schwab
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Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for V. E. Schwab: documented activity in 2010. Wikidata Q17468111, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17468111 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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