Goodreads asked Jon Ray:

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

Jon Ray While running my own home games of Dungeons & Dragons as the Dungeon Master, I would play the roles of the monsters. Sometimes, while the party was trying to make up their minds of what to do next, I would create backstories for some of the encounters and saw from the perspective of the opposite side. I've also enjoyed PC games such as Dungeon Keeper, where you are the mad overlord of the dungeon and have to do dungeon management. It was only a matter of time before I created an underdog goblin, with a heart of gold and called him Gorp.

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