BookBuzz.net recently sat down with Scottish-American author Féline na Coille to discuss her debut novel, Be Careful What You Hunt, the first book in the Saga of the Fierce Feminine trilogy. In this thoughtful interview, she shares the personal inspiration behind the novel, the influence of her Scottish ancestry and mythology, and how themes of resilience, remembrance, identity, and feminine strength shaped the story. She also offers insight into her unique writing process, the challenges of crafting a genre-bending novel, and the message she hopes readers will carry with them long after turning the final page.
Féline na Coille is a Scottish-American author who writes in the space where myth becomes lived experience, silence becomes testimony, and survival becomes sovereignty. Her perspective is rooted in a lineage marked by persecution, resistance, and remembrance—from the shadow of the Scottish witch trials to the ancestral wounds carried through generations.
At the heart of Féline’s work is a calling to awaken readers from the spells cast on them by the intentional systems of division and manipulation keeping our world out of balance. Her stories blur the line between dystopian future and present-day mirror, pushing back against a world that seeks to label what it fears and silence what it cannot control. They encourage women to come back to themselves and to one another. To reclaim their voices, bodies, intuition, and power. To rise together as a force for restoring balance. In a world woven with untruths, where illusion is mistaken for order and separation is mistaken for freedom, she writes to repair what has been fundamentally broken.
Author Q&A
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is Be Careful What You Hunt, the first book in the Saga of the Fierce Feminine trilogy. It was inspired by a question that stayed with me for years: What happens when women who were silenced are finally allowed to speak through their stories?
My family lineage traces back to the witches of Scotland, and even further—to the beginning of Scotland itself. Through wars, deprivation, persecution, and survival, the women of my clan endured unimaginable things. For generations, women had to hide their gifts from the world out of fear of being hunted, judged, or destroyed.
I’ve always been fascinated by that heritage—the mythology and spirituality—as well as the invisible threads that connect generations, including epigenetics. Rather than writing a fantasy where power is inherited through kingdoms or magic alone, I wanted to explore the idea that our greatest inheritance may be both the wisdom and the wounds passed down through the women before us.
At its heart, this book is about the power of being a woman—the beauty and the burden, the rage and the resilience, the intuition and the sacred strength that can coexist and define her experience. It also reflects the struggle of existing in a misogynistic society and how current events can sow the seeds for a dystopian future.
The novel grew into a story about survival, identity, remembrance, and discovery that the very thing the world tells you to hide may be the source of your greatest strength.
Read the full interview at https://bookbuzz.net/interview-with-author-feline-na-coille-about-her-book-be-careful-what-you-hunt/
Connect with the Author Online at https://felinenacoille.com/
Be Careful What You Hunt is available for purchase from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Careful-What-Hunt-Fierce-Feminine-ebook/dp/B0H3WXNB95
