Goodreads asked Kate Hall:

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

Kate Hall Smoke & Mist originally started as a tandem novel with my first critique partner. We wanted to write a dual-POV novel about a magical school in a magical contemporary world. I was living in St. Louis at the time, a town that is inherently magical in its own way, so that’s where it was set. In early drafts, Sarah, the main character, already had a pet dragon. I decided to change it a few drafts back so that she found the dragon egg and took care of it on-page.

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