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Goodreads asked Ray McCarthy:

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

Ray McCarthy The most recent book or WIP (Work in Progress) is "The Fairy Godmother", perhaps #6 in the "Otherworld" series. I'll release #1, "Under the Stone of Destiny" soon.

I can't remember where the idea came from, exactly.

The most recently completed first draft is "The Mission's Talent". It started as an idea for a collaborative Space Opera with another author. I learnt two things:
1) Unless there is a printed "bible" or "wiki" of all the unpublished stuff in the other author's existing "world", collaboration only works on a new "world".
2) I can't do Space Opera.
I then changed it to be about people from our world abducted 3,000 years ago and more, discovered by the people on the starship at the start of "The Apprentice's Talent". It's set 20 years after "The Master's Talent", so likely I'll not release it till maybe 2018.

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