Goodreads asked Heather McConnell:

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

Heather McConnell I was out for a run one day in the fall of 2000. I had been mulling over human rights issues during my run, and specifically women's rights across the globe. Feeling frustrated that these issues seemed to be unsolvable, I thought, "Well, what if I had some sort of superpowers?" and, more specifically, "Which superpowers would help?" Maybe if a character I could write could just take out a few of the bad guys, that might help?

It turns out it doesn't quite work this way in the real world - Cat finds this out through the course of the first book - but that was how the idea of Invisible Woman started. It also changed dramatically a year later when, after starting the book in June 2001 and setting it in Afghanistan, everything changed on 9/11. And then continued to change as other characters showed up in the story with their own (and frequently better) ideas of how to make a difference in the world.

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