Goodreads asked Sean Valdrow:

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

Sean Valdrow The answer to this is in the cover art: the knight on the rooster. It is a bit of medieval marginalia and struck my fancy. I used it as the start to a writing exercise, an inspiration to create a fiction piece. The logic, if we dare abuse the word so badly, went something like this: Ok...there's a knight riding a chicken. Either the that's one big bird OR the knight was shrunk. If the knight was tiny, how'd he get that way? Must've been an evil witch's spell.... From there, I started writing and just didn't stop.
One does not know how to write a novel until one has written a novel. And that book is how I learned to write a novel.

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