Goodreads asked Christopher David Sturdevant:

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

Christopher David Sturdevant It has been over thirty years now since I wrote a poem called "The Hall of a Thousand Doors." The poem featured an adult who finds himself in a hallway with doors as far as his eyes could see. Behind each of the doors were scenes from his life.

Two years later, I started to have ideas of changing the parameters of the poem and turning it into a short story. Instead of an adult, I placed a small child in the hall, and instead of scenes from his life, each door led to a different fairy tale. My villain works to destroy the happy endings and my hero is there to stop him.

The story never really made it past the initial pages, though, from time to time, I would revisit ideas for its continuation.

Last year in the Spring (2013), I was taking a screen-writing class and we were assigned to write the first 20-30 pages of an original screenplay. For days I struggled with ideas on what to use for my content. Then it hit me. I had a story in my head, going on 30 years now. I started writing out the screenplay and was on a roll. I flew past the 20-30 page limit of the assignment and informed my instructor that I was going to finally finish the complete story.

Once the semester ended, I realized that I had all the elements I needed to finally write the story, so I began the task of converting the screenplay over to manuscript form.

Now, a year and a half later, after a great deal of hard work, the book is finished.

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