Goodreads asked K.J. McPike:

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

K.J. McPike Interestingly enough, the idea came to me while I was trying to map out the plot for a different book.

For those of you who don't know, I have a tattoo on the back of my neck of a symbol I designed when I was in high school. The symbol combines the first initials of my four siblings with my own first initial.

As I was thinking about where to take the storyline for the other novel, I started rubbing the back of my neck. Then it hit me that it would be really fun to write a book about five siblings and a symbol they shared that had some kind of mystical power. The idea of astral projection has always fascinated me, so that came to me right away. Everything else I originally planned transformed quite a bit through the writing process, but it all began with a tattoo and a little bit of writer's block.

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