Goodreads asked Clare Urbanski:

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

Clare Urbanski I guess that'd be the last Queen of Spades installment, but I've been working on the trilogy for almost ten years now! I got the idea all the way back in middle school when I was first learning to play poker and discovered the superstition behind the Queen of Spades. I immediately wanted her to be a villain. You can pry my eighth-grade manuscripts from my cold, dead fingers, though.

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