After completing If My Moon Was Your Sun, Andreas Steinhöfel and Nele Palmtag met to discuss the genesis and development of the book. We have summarized their comments below.

Andreas and Nele, how did you come up with Max?

Andreas Steinhöfel: I can still remember the first image that went through my head. It always starts with an image. Over on one side was a forest with a huge moon behind it, and on the other these little people running around. And it was this little boy I thought of first: a little boy named Max who is running after his grandpa, and who is being followed in turn by this goofy Ms. Schneider. And then you realize: yeah, I think I can make something out of that.