Goodreads asked G.K. Werner:

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

G.K. Werner I never missed an episode of Richard Greene's Robin Hood while growing up in the fifties. Henry Gilbert's Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood was the first full-length chapter book I ever read. I didn't get the part of Robin in a sixth grade play, but always starred as Robin playing in the woods with friends (and kept the merry man costume my mother made for me as a bit player). My English relatives (the Pearsons and Clees) showed me Nottingham, Sherwood Forest (what's left of it) and Yorkshire (the original Robin Hood territory). I stood inside the Major Oak (probably a sapling in Robin's day) and have long steeped myself in Plantagenet England. OK, I'm a Robin Hood nut! So what do you do when your favorite show is off the air and you've outgrown your Robin Hood costume and playing in the woods with homemade bows is frowned on by adults? You write Robin Hood tales.

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