Goodreads asked D. Thourson Palmer:

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

D. Thourson Palmer I've always loved fantasy and magic and a kick-ass fight scene.Other than that, at the time I started, I was working as an assistant English teacher in a Japanese high school. Between classes, train trips, getting stuck at bus stations, I had a lot of down time, and a lot of things that made it into the book were on my mind. Living in a foreign place, in a country where I could barely understand anyone, sometimes feeling (or literally getting) lost, and the grandeur of the journey were all things that appeared in the book. A lot of Ours Is the Storm is about Revik and Ahi'rea figuring out what their lives are, what they mean.

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