Goodreads asked Roderick T. Macdonald:

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

Roderick T. Macdonald I was daydreaming, thinking about nothing in particular, when I just wondered what would happen if a thief, in the process of escaping from a prison, released the prison's most dangerous resident, a demon. That seemed pretty interesting, so I kept thinking about it.

I had to work out why the thief was there, and the demon. How the thief would be able to free the demon, why he would do it, and what the results would be. Before I knew it, the major components of the World Belt, my fantasy milieu, were falling into place.

I sat down at my computer, and over 6-8 hours straight produced a 34 page outline there and then, from that first idle daydreamed thought. The outline had some flab to it, meandering thoughts and what ifs, but the skeleton of the story from start to finish was there. I knew then I had a novel to believe in, and began to write.

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