Goodreads asked S.A. Klopfenstein:

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

S.A. Klopfenstein The original, and most basic, inspiration came from an idea I had many years ago, a sort of loose re-imagining of angelic beings. The Watchers in The Shadow Watch were once this sort of guardian order of magically gifted people, who could fly, and who tried to keep peace in the world until some of them sought power and brought about a magical apocalypse. The second inspiration came from an image of a gallows in a city square, and two slaves forced to build it. This image led to the event that catapults Tori onto her journey in the story.

I wrote the first 8,000 words or so of The Shadow Watch separately from the rest of the book. I had some inspiration and hurried to get it down in the matter of a few days. I let the story lie for about 5 months until I had time to start being serious about it, and until I had a better idea for where the story was going to go. I finished it about 7 months after I returned to writing it.

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