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Goodreads asked Jesse B. Booth:

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

Jesse B. Booth Recent book? As in the book I'm currently writing? Or my last published book? Both? Okay, here you go!

The origins of my novel actual came from a random question I had about light and dark. Why do stories always make light good and dark bad? Like in Star Wars... Light side of the force = good, Dark side of the force = bad. So I played with an idea about light magic and good magic and how neither of them were good or bad. Good or bad depended on how the magicians used their magic.

As for my last published novel, The Network, I was sitting in a college course learning about the history of networking. I had the random thought of what a potential future might look like due to social networking. Totally ran with it and created a fine novel!

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