Goodreads asked Nancy S. Brandt:

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

Nancy S. Brandt Where my ideas come from is a bit of a mystery hidden in a labyrinth. The idea for Pigsty Princess came while I was writing Sword & Illusion. In that book, Prince Varian has a sister who is all about clothes, jewels, hair, and dancing. I started wondering what would happen if a King was so fed up with a daughter who was spending all his money on frivolous things that he decided to teach her a lesson by marrying her off to a pig farmer. The ideas kinda morphed from there.

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