Goodreads asked Jill K. Sayre:

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

Jill K. Sayre "The Fairies of Turtle Creek" was inspired by the walks I used to take with my kids down along Turtle Creek. They would look for fairies. Then I started to wonder what would convince a modern teen that fairies were real, especially in this world of science-driven technology. My research showed that the time in history when teens and adults really believed in fairies was during the 1920s, after the two girls in Cottingley, England took photos of supposed "real" fairies. That's when I decided to put the two times periods together, and my story came together.

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