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Goodreads asked Stephen C. Merlino:

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

Stephen C. Merlino Everywhere. Games I have played, books I have read, history, travel, more travel.

And one day the main character took shape in my mind. I saw his situation, his world, and I gave him a problem to struggle against. That is what a story is: Character + Setting + Problem.

His world is a mashup of two periods in history that I love: shakespeare's and Elizabeth's England, and the American West.

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