Lillian Cummings asked Gena Showalter:

Hi Gena Where do you get your inspiration from for you stories especially the lords of the underworld as they are my favourites?

Gena Showalter I’ve been inspired in different ways for different books. Dreams, conversations, something I've seen, even had a book idea hit me after listening to a church sermon. Alice in Zombieland came about from passages of scripture: (paraphrasing) our battle is not against flesh and blood but against evil spirits. A grain of an idea gets me excited -- with the Lords of the Underworld that grain was "an immortal warrior is killed every night only to awaken the next morning knowing he has to die again-- and then I play connect the dots (asking myself why and how) and the story grows from there!

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