Goodreads asked R.R. Surbier:

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

R.R. Surbier The world concept had been with me since childhood, a 'what if' I played with often. I mean, what if the Fey had once been real, occasionally marrying in to human families hundreds of years ago? What if they had to flee to other dimensions when when the age of reason broke magic? And what if their descendants with humans could still be living amongst us? Magical people with subtle secret gifts, not even aware that they had magic until enough of them were close enough to kindle their magic sparks. The Fey could have left hundreds of years ago, but could still look after their kin through inter-dimensional dream walking. It was an idea that grew with me to adulthood, but I didn't call them Fey-born until I wrote Madness and Wonder. I had a vague idea for what story I wanted to tell, but it wasn't until a dream I had about two years ago, a variation on the opening scene between Hatter and Rosie, that I got the real seed of the story. Once I started writing, the epic love of Hatter and Rosie was born, and magic saved.

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