Goodreads asked Sarah Ash:

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

Sarah Ash The Japanese legend of the Tide Dragons, Flood and Ebb, intrigued me from the moment I first read it many years ago. But it was the image of a young man playing his flute to an empty moonlit sea...and charming one of the dragons closer to shore that came to me first. The bitter clash between warring clans, the Red Kites and the Black Cranes, followed later.
Which clan did the young man belong to? Why did the sound of his flute draw one of the Tide Dragons close to shore? What connected him to the dragon? All these questions and so many more demanded to be answered. That's the way stories begin for me.

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