Goodreads asked John Schettler:

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

John Schettler I started writing aspects of Chronicles of Innisfail as early as my high school days, in dutiful reverence to the great master Tolkien. I developed world maps, genealogies of kings and emperors, and had a dedicated notebook where I kept all the place names to be used in my world building. I had a big box with all this stuff, including sample chapters I had written for it over the years. Now I started writing it in earnest, and completed Volume I in a planned series, finally giving the story life. Of late I've been laboring over the maps and finally got them on the web site at writingshop.ws I just love time spent in this new world!

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