Goodreads asked S. E. Henry:

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

S. E. Henry The idea for the Dream Guardian series came, in fact, from a dream. I never dream as myself, but as other people, and in color. FWIW. When I woke up, I wrote as much of it down as I could. It was pretty fantastical and the scene itself followed me around for months: A teenage girl (Terryn) trying to learn magic at a school in a dream world and she makes a really big mistake.

I was a reporter at the time and working on a middle grade novel about a girl with a pet spider, which I was workshopping with my local writers' group. I did not have time to write what was clearerly an epic fantasy. Finally, I gave up and sat down and started writing. What I thought was one book, turned into two and then a trilogy and now I'm suspecting there could be four books. And the scene that started it all? It'll be in Book 3, No Time to Die.

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