Her first draft didn't include the concept of "quarry-speech" and was added in the second. Hale first came up with the idea for Princess Academy while writing her first novel, The Goose Girl her husband, Dean Hale, was reading a fiction book about a tutor to a princess, which prompted Hale to develop the idea of a group of "princesses in training". It is the first in the Princess Academy series, followed by Princess Academy: Palace of Stone and Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters. The book was named a 2006 Newbery Honor winner as well as a New York Times Bestseller. It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Miri who attends a princess academy that will determine who wins the hand of the prince. Princess Academy is a fantasy novel exploring themes of families, relationships, and education by Shannon Hale published on June 16, 2005, by Bloomsbury.
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