I wrote an article about where I got the idea for The Chimaera Regiment, and it was published on the review site Upcoming4.Me:
I often think of the development of my stories as the slow coalescence of an asteroid belt of ideas into a planet of prose. Notion after notion passes through the solar system of my mind and gets caught; eventually, they collide, producing enough mass to draw in other, smaller ideas. Over time, this process leads to something that is worth writing down.
Read more over there!