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#WritersCoffeeClub 22. How did you develop the idea for your first book?

Late 80s/early 90s I went DEEP down the manga/anime rabbithole, I read a lot of Japanese culture, history and lit in translation, picked up some extension and college language credits, joined an APA that was mostly manga/anime related. My friend who ran the APA said she would write a novel if I did. I finished mine. The world and characters were alt-early-Japanese, no worse than EFP cod-Euro-medieval or anime Catholicism.