I came up with the idea of “A Dark Horizon” in 2023 shortly after watching season one of House of the Dragon. I had been thinking about how there were things I would have done differently in regards to the dragons. Then, after rewatching The Hobbit movies (And no, I don’t agree that they’re terrible. I love them as much as the LOTR movies.), I suddenly wondered if there were any books about dwarf dragon riders. My search didn’t turn up anything.

The concept began with thinking about how dwar...