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Goodreads asked Katharina Gerlach:

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

Katharina Gerlach I watched my youngest play with a folding rule (also called carpenter's rule, it's a foldable yardstick very common over here in Germany but not so well known in some other countries) and thought "What if it opens a portal in time..."

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