Goodreads asked Maia Chance:

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

Maia Chance The idea for Snow White Red-Handed came from a creative mash-up: I was teaching an academic writing course called Critical Approaches to Fairy Tales, in which the students read fairy tales and wrote about them using different critical theories, and simultaneously I was working on my PhD dissertation, which is about New England literature in the mid-nineteenth century. So I had practical New England girls like Ophelia Flax on my mind, and I thought it would be pretty entertaining to put one in a magical European setting.

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