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Goodreads asked Amy Tanner:

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

Amy Tanner I was rereading a battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and thought: "I want to write something like this! A fun, rollicking romp...Something I can breeze through in six months or so..." There was even a teensy piece of paper stuck into the front of the book with scribbling on it that turned out to be Douglas Adams' signature. A good omen. Although if I'd known that six months would turn into six years, I probably would have run the other way, screaming. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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