Bayron, Kalynn

In January 2014, Kalynn Bayron was struck by an idea. While watching Once Upon a Time she became fascinated with the backstories of some of the beloved characters in literature, particularly the villains. She began to picture what their lives must have been like and questioned if the fairy tales we hear as children were really all there was to it. She decided to commit to paper the story of one of the most fearsome characters in all of children's literature, Captain James Hook. While working out the details of the plot, Kalynn realized that she had much more than a simple origin story. She had...