She built a magic system out of Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Physicist-turned-author Keon Shore on THE BAD APOTHECARY, book one of The Ninth Path, and the Jungian shadow underneath it.
Keon walked away from physics, then spent years turning integral theory, Jung's shadow, and Daoist inner alchemy into a cultivation fantasy where doing magic wrong tears holes in reality. She explains how a universe with repressed truths became the engine of the series, why she wrote it so none of that has to be visible to enjoy the story, and how Chinese web novels shaped her stripped-down prose. Plus why she doesn't believe in dark matter, what she does when a chapter stops working, and where book two goes when it lands on September 9. Free to read on Royal Road.
KEON SHORE
The Bad Apothecary (Ninth Path) — Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Apothecary-Ninth-Path/dp/B0GHWNYBK2/
Read free on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/144290/ninth-path
Follow Keone on Instagram: @keonshore_author
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