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Goodreads asked N.F.T. Maya:

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

N.F.T. Maya My most recent (published) book came to me after my adviser asked me "What do you think about making a Christmas short story?" I got kind of desperate with that (it was October), but went to take a shower thinking about Christmas and something that wold relate to that... I don't have snow where I live, but I knew, traditionally, we think "cold winter and hot chocolate" when we talk about that time of the year (and it's all Hollywood's fault, but, well, that's life).
So, five minutes in my shower, I already had prince Nikolai and the beginnings of what Nadezhda would come to be.
In the end, I guess the idea came from imagining a cold winter and a hot prince haha.
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Meu livro mais recente (publicado) veio para mim quando minha assessora perguntou "O que você acha de fazer um conto de natal?". Eu fiquei meio desesperada (era outubro), mas fui tomar banho pensando no natal e algo que eu pudesse relacionar a isso... Eu não tenho neve onde moro, mas eu sabia que, tradicionalmente, pensamos em "inverno frio e chocolate quente", quando falamos dessa época do ano (e é tudo culpa de Hollywood, mas é a vida).
Cinco minutos no banho e eu já tinha o príncipe Nikolai e o que seriam os primórdios de Nadezhda.
No fim, acho que a ideia veio de imaginar um inverno frio e um príncipe quente haha.

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