Goodreads asked Steven Lawrence:

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

Steven Lawrence I have been doing quite a bit of animation over the past decade, so I have thought a lot about characters that are sentient objects. For my first children's book I wanted to try something that could be whimsical, epic and slightly educational. I imagined a couple of letters hanging out, best friends, but from different backgrounds. Then it occurred to me that maybe they didn't know each other and were, in fact, separated by a fantastic obstacle that existed because of this separation. If they were brave enough to challenge the obstacle and overcome it, the result would be a new world.

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