Goodreads asked Tamara Shoemaker:

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

Tamara Shoemaker Mark of Four (not published yet) is a story of a girl who can wield four elements (air, fire, earth, and water) in a world where everyone else can wield only one. I don't know exactly where the idea came from. I had never seen The Last Airbender, so I didn't have that story to inspire me. I was just tossing around ideas, grabbed at the seed (the four elements), and from that the story grew. It's gotten much more complicated than I ever intended. I set out to have a simple story. I'm nearly done now with the trilogy, and the story has taken over my world.

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