Goodreads asked Kevin Potter:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kevin Potter As dumb as it may sound, the idea for not only The Fall of an Overlord, but the whole series The Calamity was actually born of a role playing game world I was building. I wanted to have a catastrophic event in the world's past unlike anything I've seen in another fantasy world.
I was stumped for weeks.
Then one day it hit me like a ton of bricks, and The Calamity and it's antagonist were born.
It started as a few pages of history with no intention of it being anything more. But as I developed the story and the world in my mind, it occurred to me that it could make a pretty good novel series.
I started with a 7-page short story to explain the antagonists presence in the world.
Later, after I had a couple hundred pages toward the main story, I realized there was more. I turned that 7-page story into a 35-page one.
And I put it away for a while to work on improving my craft.
When I came back to it again in late 2016, I realized again that there was still more to the story and I decided that since prequels are usually novella length (or shorter), I split it into two prequel volumes.

The Fall of an Overlord is the first part of that story. The second part, Rise of the Overlord will be coming later in 2017.

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