Jill asked Jennifer Lynn Alvarez:

What have you the idea for guardian herd?

Jennifer Lynn Alvarez I think you're asking where the idea came from. I'll tell you! I was driving my child home from a soccer game and daydreaming (as one does). The sky was big that day and layered in gradient shades of blue. A flock of geese flew overhead, but I saw a herd of flying horses.

I immediately knew three things: They were wild pegasi; they were migrating south for winter; and the one in the back was struggling to keep up because she was pregnant with a very special foal. Bam! Inspiration! I started writing as soon as I got home. I wrote the book in twenty days. Actually, the book wrote me! Best experience of my life.

Soon after, I got my first literary agent and then quickly sold the book in a four-book deal to HarperCollins Children's Books. Then I sold a trilogy called Riders of the Realm about the same wild pegasi and the human clan that attempts to capture them.

Now my pegasi fly across readers' minds all around the world. Dreams do come true!

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