Goodreads asked Jim Rugg:

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

Jim Rugg My most recent book is the Street Angel Gang. The inspiration for that comes from the main character, Street Angel. She’s a homeless orphan ninja on a skateboard. She’s only 13 years old. While brainstorming with my writing partner, Brian Maruca, we thought about her life and setting and it seemed like a natural fit that she would be drawn into gang life. The story developed from that simple concept. What would happen if Jesse joined a gang? Once we started playing with that idea, we thought about the gangs we’ve read about or seen in books and movies like the Warriors or the Scooby gang and imagined how Street Angel would fit with them...

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