Goodreads asked M. Jonathan Jones:

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

M. Jonathan Jones Hmmm. That's a tricky one, because I think the ideas grow and change as you write, and they draw on everything you've ever done, read, or seen. The initial spark for my new book The Outlaws of Kratzenfels was very simple: it was the idea of a steampunk fairytale. Not an existing fairytale rewritten as steampunk, but the kind of fairytale the children love to hear at bedtime in the steampunk cities of New London, Novaya Moskva, Neu Berlin, or Even Newer York. So it obviously needed a princess, a prince, an evil doer, and of course a cyber-wolf...

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