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Goodreads asked Melissa Riddell:

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

Melissa Riddell Well, I have three stories going on at the moment because that's just how I roll being a prolific writer.

For Cursed, which only has two more chapters left before I'm finished so I'll consider it my most current work, I got the idea from "Kein Liebeslied" by Oomph!

It's a German song, but there's a line in it that says, "Und Kain wollte wie Abel sein, darum hasste er den Bruder wie sich selbst" and this sparked the idea for the book. It basically says Cain hated Abel as much as he hated himself, and my mind ran away with the story. Haha.

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