We never know when inspiration may strike. It may come when we’re sleeping. It may be when we’re driving. Or — if you’re writer Andrea Stewart — it may be when a friend chokes on something they bought in a food court in Texas.
In the following email interview, Stewart explains how a friend’s momentary inability to breath inspired her to write The Bone Shard Daughter (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first book of her epic fantasy trilogy, The Drowning Empire.