Board Thread:Rowan of Rin/@comment-144.37.120.94-20170207230608/@comment-821448-20180310213016

Now that I've thought about it, I doubt she had thought of the dragons in Deltora at this point. In fact, I doubt she was even thinking of Deltora. It did take her quite some time to develop the story for Deltora, but she didn't start work on it until probably late 90s. I think Rodda has said as much too.

EDIT: She was writing the first books of Deltora Quest while she was writing the last Rowan of Rin books though. Rowan of the Bukshah came out in the early 2000s, after the first Deltora Quest series.