However, it took a lot of work before the book’s main character, Kayta Ivanova, revealed herself to Runyan. Runyan knew that she wanted to tell the story of the Night Witches, the women pilots of Soviet Russia during WWII, and she needed a strong, female protagonist to do so. Because she’s so used to writing wherever she can find a place and whenever she can get a moment, Runyan rarely writes without her earphones, and the sensation of wearing them is something she has to have to focus. Runyan wrote most of Daughters of the Night Sky in stolen moments: in a study room at the county library to minimize distractions, by putting her gym membership to good use by writing in the lobby of the gym, or in the home office any time Runyan’s daughter had gone to preschool. The process of writing text that transports the reader to another time period proved to be a logistical challenge. In her latest book, Daughters of the Night Sky, Runyan takes the reader to the front lines of World War II in Soviet Russia, and tells a tale of war, flight, and women’s rights. It requires so much more description, and makes the writing so much more vibrant, which is one of the joys, and challenges, of the genre,” said Runyan. It “has the ability to transport you through time and space, where contemporary fiction has less of that. Runyan has been drawn to historical fiction for most of her life.
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