Goodreads asked E.A. Allen:

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

E.A. Allen "Shadows on a Distant Shore" came at the juncture of two thoughts. The first was what my characters -- Montclaire and Fitz -- might get mixed up in after all they'd been through in "When Beggars Die" (my debut novel). The second was the complicated mix of suspicions and machinations that were part of the runup to the First World War. The two ingredients that came together as "the Idea" for shadows were the German thinking about how to militarize the new Zeppelin airship and Germans suspicions that the Czar and the French were actively collaborating to defeat German ambitions to be a Great Power.

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