Tracy Krauss asked Yvonne Anderson:

What inspired Jemima Freeman's character?

Yvonne Anderson That's a good question, Tracy--and the answer is a long one. For this story, I started with the setting. I'd been visiting Gannah for so long, I wanted a complete break, so I tried to decide what sort of planet to visit next time. I've always been fascinated with two kinds of terrestrial terrains: flat, bayou-like regions where people travel by water rather than roads; and steep, rocky, mountainous areas that only a mountain goat would love. I decided to put the two together--but of course they're mutually exclusive and can't co-exist in nature, so I had to make it a man-made environment. And the whole planet couldn't be like that; it would have to be just one portion of it. And so the concept of Freemansland was born. Then I tried to envision what sort of person that strange land would spawn. Jemima became the product of her environment. Beyond that, I'm not sure. I just started spending time with her and came to learn her story.

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