KingdomReader asked Megan Bannen:

Hello! I hope that you are safe and healthy! I just had a quick question for you! Did you cry when you wrote 'The Bird And The Blade'? I have always wondered if authors have also cried with us readers. Also I was wondering where you got your inspiration for your books? Was it a memory? An idea? A sad song? Have any amazing day and Merry Christmas!

Megan Bannen Hello! I hope you are also safe and healthy. Whew, what a year. I'm afraid that I did not cry when I wrote the Bird and the Blade, and I didn't cry when I wrote Soulswift either, although I got a little choked up during a couple of drafts. I did, however, cry while working on my current book, but it's also the only book I have ever written during a global pandemic, so that may have affected my mood a bit. Different things have inspired each book I've written. The Bird and the Blade was a retelling of a French fairy tale, but told from a secondary character's point of view. I wrote Soulswift because I wanted to write something that had the same emotional tone as Ralph Vaughn Williams's "The Lark Ascending." The book I'm working on now was inspired by a photograph I found on Pinterest. Thanks so much for the questions, and happy holidays!

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