Goodreads asked Sapha Burnell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sapha Burnell I start with an image, or concept. With Usurper Kings, it was the juxtaposition of a search for God's existence with the treatment of women by global religion. Everything stemmed from that. My upcoming novella Son of Abel began when I wanted to answer the question of religious conversion in early Scandinavia. Telling that story through Caleb's latter search for the ultimate sin and looking for clues in an ancient Cardinal's remaining journals. My inspiration always stems from some form of question which needs to be answered so bad that it keeps me awake, distracts me from my work and condemns me to answer it.

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