Goodreads asked Jennifer M. Baldwin:

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

Jennifer M. Baldwin I've always been a huge Arthurian buff. It started when I was a kid and read the Rosemary Sutcliff books about Arthur. I loved them. I continually checked them out from the library. Seriously, I think I managed to keep them for an entire year. I'd check them out, renew them as much as the library would allow, return them when I finally couldn't renew them anymore, and then check them out again as soon as they were returned to the shelf. It was borderline obsessive.

No, actually, it WAS obsessive.

My fascination with the Arthurian legends continued into college where I took a class about Celtic myths and read all about the Welsh version of Arthur. That was the first time I had encountered references to the Thirteen Treasures of Britain. I thought they sounded cool, so I did more research and decided that I wanted to write a story that included the treasures in some way.

The Merlin's Last Magic series is what grew out of my fascination with the treasures and the Welsh myths of the Mabinogian.

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