Goodreads asked Mara Valderran:

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

Mara Valderran For Altar of Reality, the idea came to me while attending the Unchained Tour, featuring Neil Gaiman. The tour was a storytelling event, and the host/MC Peter Aguero's story was about his wife's struggle with severe epilepsy, and his struggle alongside her. It was very moving, and towards the end, he posed the question of what happens to her during the seizures. How does she feel? What does she experience, even if she doesn't remember it? And the idea came to mind that maybe her consciousness goes somewhere else, to some other place. Thus the idea of a girl shifting to an alternate reality after her first grand mal seizure was born, and it continued to grow from there.

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