Goodreads asked Denae Christine:

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

Denae Christine The Royal Deception trilogy is a retelling of the Lion King (which happens to be Disney's retelling of Hamlet). For the plot, I used a lot of ideas out of the Lion King movie and a few from the Hamlet play. For the blade shifters, my sister and I came up with those one day while we were playing, pretending our arms/legs were swords. For the world, I got that from a short story of mine, which was about a mermaid who was based on Cinderella and Esther and Ariel.
I guess my ideas come from anywhere.

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