Goodreads asked Rachel Dacus:

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

Rachel Dacus My current WIP was inspired by a fabulous art history tour of Northern Italy, preceded and followed by courses in Renaissance art. I began to wonder, as I browsed through the masterpieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini, Giotto, Raphael, and so many others, what it would be like to meet these geniuses and learn about how they created their WIPs.

My current book of poetry, prose, and drama, GODS OF WATER AND AIR, was greatly inspired by a childhood as the rocket scientist's daughter, child of a painter, and growing up alongside the Pacific Ocean and the industries it spawned and people it attracted from the Old World. From that eclectic mix came a wish to capture portraits and landscapes in words.

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