Goodreads asked Charles W. McDonald Jr.:

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

Charles W. McDonald Jr. So there's a two-part answer to that question... I had an idea for Book 2 of A Throne of Souls (Black Mirrors of the Soul) long before there was A Throne of Souls. So this was circa 1991/1992. BMOS was always going to be about what makes Damon Damon in the first place. The concept for A Throne of Souls as a series framework came to me in July 1995, blending together some 20 characters I'd been developing all into a singular storyline that superseded BMOS and created the need for a book 1 (A Kingdom Forgotten).

Life happened, priorities came and went, but eventually life settled down for me enough to really focus on this. I worked on this series several hundred hours at a whack in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2007, but only after moving into my new house in Roanoke, TX where I had a legitimate home office, could I build (yes I made it with my own hands) my massive executive desk, bookshelf, and whiteboard. That might sound trivial, but having a truly awesome home office to do your work is amazingly helpful to getting things done. So my home office was finished in April 2016, and shortly after that I started white-boarding compelling events, visualizing the threads that led into, and out of, those events. That crystalized what remained of A Throne of Souls for me in an epiphany moment and I was essentially textually complete with book 1 a few weeks after that. Artwork is the primary reason this book took so long to get to market.

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