Goodreads asked Frederic S. Durbin:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Frederic S. Durbin Well, my plots (and characters, and everything about the stories) nearly always come from places. And some of the places that intrigue me most are hidden places: caverns underground, secret rooms, hidden passageways, lost islands, lost cities swallowed by the jungle, the green shadow-world inside a cornfield or in the top of a tree . . . you get the idea. When I was about seven or eight, my parents first introduced me to the grand mystery that is Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. I was enchanted, and in one way or another, I've been writing about Mammoth Cave ever since--not directly, but the cave is present in the feel, the atmosphere of so many of my settings.

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