A Goodreads user asked Mindee Arnett:

How did you come up with the idea of Avalon?

Mindee Arnett Oh, this is such a tricky question to answer. Sometimes my ideas come from very clear places, and sometimes they're more nebulous. That's the case with Avalon. It sort of evolved out of several different things. I knew I wanted to write a space-based, YA sci-fi, mostly because there just weren't a lot of those. I also wanted to pay homage to Firefly by imagining Jeth as a teenage Malcolm Reynolds. That was idea number one. The teenage spaceship thieves came second, and then the idea of metaspace and so on. I sort of gathered these ideas up like sticks for kindling and eventually I had enough to start a fire (read: write a whole book). Thank you so much for you question!

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