Goodreads asked Cherry Potts:

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

Cherry Potts My most 'recent' book has been twenty years in the writing - I'm just typesetting it now! The Dowry Blade - an epic fantasy novel about the limitations of love and power and trust. I'm not sure what started me off, but I was reading a lot of fantasy at the time and loved its ability to create new roles for women to do absolutely anything, so my main characters do just that, and sometimes have to live with the consequences.The book started life as a short story which was chosen as the lead story in Onlywomen press' anthology Perfect Pitch. it was quite a long short story, and I couldn't let go of one of the characters, Brede, so eventually and very slowly I wrote the rest of her story.

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