Goodreads asked Rand B. Lee:

How do you get inspired to write?

Rand B. Lee I was inspired to write by my parents, who filled our house with books. My mother read to me when I was just a baby, and throughout my toddler and middle childhood, until I could read for myself. She hooked me on fantasy—"The Wind In the Willows", "Peter Pan", "At the Back of the North Wind". And my father, who wrote mystery novels and stories, introduced me to science fiction. He gave me a copy of Robert Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel," an SF juvenile about a boy who is given a spacesuit and meets an alien in his back meadow. The alien, whom the boy calls Mother Thing, is gentle and softly furred, and served as the inspiration for my gentle, furred aliens, the Damánakíppith/fü, whom I have written stories about and are now characters in a novel I am writing.

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