Goodreads asked Athena Grayson:

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

Athena Grayson I have this love-hate relationship with celebrity gossip. I think it's a disturbingly accurate reflection on what we value in our society (versus what we say we value), and it both fascinates and repels me--why do we love watching "beautiful people" mess up so badly? And why does celebrity so often make people into hot messes? I wanted to explore that, and Ione (my main heroine) came to me in the form of "What if I put a 'hot mess' celeb like Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan...in space?"

We like to think the scandals are a result of bad life choices or people acting out of control, but I've always suspected that even the public figures who find themselves at the end of one outrageous headline after another are not stupid people. One thing the characters of all my stories share is that they are more than they appear on the surface. I wanted to explore what kind of person could a spoiled space princess become when her wealth and privilege are in peril? Can she rise to the challenge of overcoming her dependency on her position, or will she accept the chains that lock her into her social position and the role her society demands of her?

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