Last for Thanksgiving, Jean Rabe explained how she worked with Andre Norton on A Taste of Magic:

Such an immense honor I was given—to complete Andre Norton’s final manuscript, A Taste of Magic. She’d gotten several chapters into the novel before a variety of circumstances did not allow her to finish it on her own.

It was the first long fiction piece I’d written in first-person, quite the challenge for me, and I strove to match her style. In the weeks before her death, Andre and I worked out the end to A Taste of Magic.

Andre was magic herself, a gifted writer who taught me more than a few things about the craft. I treasured her friendship through the years, and our writing and editing collaborations. A Taste of Magic is a project I will always remember with love and pride.