Goodreads asked Lucinda Sage-Midgorden:

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

Lucinda Sage-Midgorden I began writing *The Space Between Time* about sixteen years ago after a visit to see my parents. My father had heart disease, though at that time he was doing pretty well. But, something about that visit made me face the fact that he wasn't going to be around forever. That was the impetus for beginning the book. I always had the idea that the book would have two story lines where the characters would interact with each other, but the story line in the past came first. My father was my mentor, you see, so I wrote about a father in the 1850s who is dying, and how his daughter and he deal with his impending death. I had to set writing the novel aside when I began teaching full-time, but I picked it up again about four or five years ago. It wasn't until about a year and a half ago that the timeline in the present came to me, and how the two main characters could communicate and learn from each other. Everything in the book came from my life experiences.

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