Goodreads asked Chauncey Rogers:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chauncey Rogers My most recent book, Home to Roost, was inspired by a true story. When I was in high school, one of our farm animals started attacking people. It wasn't a large animal, so it wasn't very dangerous--my brother and I actually found it rather funny--but it was very frightening for my younger siblings. My dad told me that I should write the story as a satire piece, highlighting the irony that my younger siblings would be so afraid of something so small. But, when I started thinking seriously about writing the story, I realized that I'd need to tell it from the animal's perspective, and that for the animal it probably hadn't been very funny. Once I was on that train of thought, I decided to include some other odd and spooky things that had occurred around the same time, and tie them all together into one story. The result was an animal-fiction horror story--something I'd never really planned on writing. But I guess that's just how things go sometimes.

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