Clan Destine Press Blog — RJK Lee

RJK Lee joins us to talk about his  Clamour and Mischief story called "Build Another Nest for Phantom Feathers," a snippet of which you can hear RJK read here. What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while researching your story? I found the nesting strategies of azure-winged magpies and magpies in Japan rather interesting. Azure-winged magpies apparently nest within the territories of predatory birds like sparrowhawks to avoid foxes and other mammals. Tokyo researchers stated that only 2% of nests within 20 meters of a sparrowhawk nest were lost to predators. This is an aspect I wanted to insert...