Goodreads asked K.V. Johansen:

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

K.V. Johansen The Leopard and The Lady are one long book divided in two, so I can't really answer that for The Lady alone. The roots of the idea are in Blackdog, in references there to the situation in the city of Marakand on the caravan road. Naturally I then had to write Marakand (The Leopard and The Lady) to find out what was really going on there. The shape of story of in the two books (which aren't really a sequel to Blackdog so much as a related history in the same world and time) was shaped by the new characters of Ahjvar and Ghu -- for me, the character is nearly always the thing that drives where the story goes.

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