Goodreads asked Marian Allen:

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

Marian Allen I get my ideas from so many places! My most recently published book is SAGE, a three-volume fantasy. That one started with a flash of a scene between a wise man and a wise woman, and a tension between their two definitions of wisdom. Then a flash of a scene about a runaway bride whose pursuer didn't know her when he saw her. Then a flash of a scene about a shapeshifter being unsuccessfully hunted in the woods. I usually do start with just little snippets of things like that, and I build from there.

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