1–What is the title of your latest release? THE JINN DAUGHTER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A socially ostracized necromantic storytelling jinn mother has to save her only daughter from the goddess of Death while accepting that death comes to all. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It was based on my Middle Eastern heritage, and I wanted a setting that didn’t feel like a typical Medieval European setting but wasn’t a stereotypical and trope-ish Middle-Eastern desert setting. I wanted the woods and the natural, yet dark, feel that setting provides to a story. And I wanted Death to be a ream that’s explored. The first fantasy book I read was Sabriel by Garth Nix and so the idea of necromancy and death has always appealed to me as a setting. Pomegranates, which feature in my novel, are a symbol of immortality, so I also wanted nature, which to me is a symbol of immortality as well, to be part of my story setting. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Maybe. She’s very tired and stressed and holds much grief, so I think I would, but she’d…