Fatimah asked B.E. Sanderson:

Where do you get your ideas for your books?

B.E. Sanderson Thanks for asking, Fatimah. Sometimes I'll see something in the news and wonder what would happen if it went another way. Sometimes ideas pop into my head while I'm trying, and failing, to fall asleep at night or for a nap. For Dying Embers, I wanted to write suspense that stood out, I asked myself how I could do that. With Accidental Death, it was a combination of 'what if' and then following the rabbit trail where it lead. For my next book, Wish in One Hand, I wanted to write an urban fantasy but using a different magical species - so I hit on genies, then I gave the heroine a mission and found a way to screw it up. In the end, the result became a paranormal suspense (because really, I can't seem to help but add suspense or mystery to any story).

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