It took more than a little quicksilver to transport Callie Hart between worlds.

In fact, when the author sat down to make her first foray into the world of fantasy with Quicksilver and its sequel Brimstone —out now—it was with a lifetime of inspiration that she brought to life the harsh desert world of Zilvaren and the verdant yet frosty Fae domain of Yvelia.

“I read a lot of fantasy,” Callie told E! News in an exclusive interview. “Everything I've ever read colors what I write and my imagination.”

Specifically, she can point to the influence of her predecessors Frank Herbert and J. R. R. Tolkien .

As she noted of Herbert’s work, “ Dune had a big part of how I constructed Zilvaren and the landscape of it—very desolate and kind of haunting. I think everything finds

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