Goodreads asked Fletcher DeLancey:

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

Fletcher DeLancey Vellmar the Blade was inspired by a short conversation that Lead Guard Vellmar has with one of her team in Without A Front: The Warrior's Challenge. She is asked if she plans to enter the Global Games, given her spectacular blade handling skills, and answers that she's thought about it but never wanted to compete with her mother, who has been the world champion for some time. So I wondered...what happens when a daughter competes with her mother in front of fifty thousand fans? What might she expect to happen, and how might she be surprised?

Because Vellmar is a secondary character in the series (at least, at that point), this gave me a chance to explore a different side of Alsea, far from the heights of global power and galactic politics. This is a simpler, homier view into Alsea and its culture.

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