Deanna Miller asked Emily McIntire:

I love that you are giving the villains a happy ever after. I can not wait for the next book. My question is how do you come up with the stories ideas. Do research old fairy tales? Will you possibly do a story on Rumpelstiltskin?

Emily McIntire I'll be honest, I'm not 100% sure how I come up with the stories themselves. The next one always shows up like clockwork when I'm about to finish whatever book I'm working on, so I've learned to trust the process.

It honestly feels like something plops them in my head and the character(s) scream and knock around until I put them on paper. I don't pre-plot my books, the scenes play like a movie while I write them, as though the characters are showing me what to put down. It's the best way I can describe it!

Yes! I always pull the inspiration from the original source work that's in the public domain, so I always read/research those before and while writing the book themselves.

My goal is always to nod to the inspiration, but to make the story itself stand alone so people who haven't ever heard of/or may not enjoy the original can still enjoy the book. :)

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