Where The Ideas Come From: About “Thornspell”

Last week I posted links to three new reviews for my books and one of them was for my Kids’YA novel, Thornspell (Knopf, 2008), from Australian reviewer Tehani Wessely, here.

So although I’ve talked a reasonable amount, both here and through the GATHERING blog tour, about where some of the ideas and influences for The Wall of Night series came from, today I thought I’d focus on Thornspell.

Ursula Le Guin says (in Steering the Craft, something like) that the ideas are “just there” and we pull the...