Goodreads asked T.J. Berry:

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

T.J. Berry Space Unicorn Blues came out of a bet between my wonderful husband and myself. I was lamenting yet another rejection on a bizarre short story in which a woman has a magical portal between her uterus and her grandmother’s attic, when my husband said, “You could just try writing a plain old adventure story without any, you know, weirdness in it.”

Reader, I got so mad at him. I love my weirdness and the quirky stories that bloom from it. Over the next few weeks, I spite-wrote the strangest book I could come up with—a magic vs. science space opera with unicorns, dwarves, and spaceships carved out of asteroids.

I lost the bet, obviously, but the joke was on both of us when I sold the book two years later. Don’t ever let it be said that spite isn’t an effective writing tool!

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