Goodreads asked Rick Waugh:

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

Rick Waugh The Eternal Muse has been rattling around inside my head for years. I first thought about it when I was in my 20s. As a musician and a fantasy writer, I thought it would be great to combine those two things somehow, and write about a minstrel, and then compose and record the songs he sang. I then combined that with a bit of my love of history; at one time, centuries ago, the Catholic Church restricted how complex music could be. I'm not sure why, but they did; this pretty much applied to church music only, but that's what most music was composed for. So, I thought, what if there was another reason, that music was magic somehow. Then I thought about how we have such an emotional reaction to art, and the entire magic system popped into my head. And it went from there....

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