The Shenanigans of Stone and Bloom

​Welcome to the official blog for Emily Stone and Diana Bloom, co-authors of the Phoenix and Calista Saga, and yes, we are sisters. 

​We would like to start off by welcoming our readership into what we hope will be a fun and informative and hopefully inspiring blog series that will help you to get to know us and how we work as a duet to create our fantasy romance books.
 
Let’s go with how it started…with a love for all things fantastical.  As devoted Disney adults and unfaltering Harry Potter fans plus having shared a lifetime of shenanigans, it was inevitable that we would connect over the creation of a world of our own making filled with problems that only magic (and sex) could solve.  Like other creative endeavours we have explored since our days in high school and university, writing has always been a tried and true outlet that had the potential to be woven into the fabric of a bigger project.  
 
We worked independently for the majority of our lives honing different skills and just doing what sisters do. Eventually the age gap between us began to fade as life caught up to us and a pandemic gripped the world. Travelling was out of the question, so that meant no Disney vacations for a while, and as isolation set in, even simple Sunday visits – a staple of life in any Italian family – was a no go, lest someone contract and spread covid to the vulnerable family members.  Introspection of the times revealed it was time to make our own fun. So we collaborated and the product of our collaboration was our first joint fantasy romance novel “A World Divided”.
 
Now dear reader we would like to invite you into the fold, what questions do you have for us?  Send us an email with your questions to be answered in future posts.
What would you like to know?
What is our Hogwarts house?
What is it about Disney world?
Which Disney princess/villain/character do we vibe with?
How is it possible to work with a sibling?
What shenanigans?
 
 
Emily Stone & Diana Bloom