Goodreads asked Joshua Hedges:

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

Joshua Hedges Back in 2005, Marked was designed to be a sort of Harry Potter/Narnia novel written to get YA readers interested in an alternate world where lost civilizations were thriving past their due date on Earth. Through the years, after a lot of editing and rewriting, the battle scenes got a bit intense and re-imagining fantasy tropes started becoming as strong as the concept as lost civilizations. Marked evolved into the finished product, so I couldn't point to a specific idea that created the novel.

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