Goodreads asked Anna Banks:

How do you get inspired to write?

Anna Banks The only TV I really watch are documentaries. That's how I got the idea for The Syrena Legacy series. I was watching a documentary about the giant squid--and how scientists always thought the giant squid was a legend, myth, fishermen's lore. Until a dead one washed up on shore in 2005. Now, only 1% of our oceans have been explored. Who's to say that there aren't mermaids out there? And so I began to write a way in which they could have existed all this time.

Same with NEMESIS. I was watching a documentary on Egypt, about the young King Tut and I kept thinking of a prince forced to take the reins of his kingdom at a young age. And of a enemy princess who has exactly what he needs to rule, what he needs to gain the confidence of his people. And so NEMEISS was born.

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