Goodreads asked Matt Harry:

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

Matt Harry I was looking at an entire shelf of "For Dummies" guides in a bookstore and marveling at how many topics they covered. I then thought, "Wouldn't it be fun if there was a help guide on a supernatural subject, like monsters or ghostbusting?" Realizing there were already films about those topics, I turned to the next most obvious choice: sorcery. From there, a story came pretty quickly. I wrote three drafts before realizing the novel itself should be formatted like a help guide.

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