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Goodreads asked M.J. Konkel:

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

M.J. Konkel I have been thinking for a while how it be like to live on a moon around a gas giant instead of on a planet. I loved the movie "Avatar", but it got wrong many of details of what living on a moon would be like. So I decided I wanted a habitable moon for a backdrop. For some details on how things would be different on a moon, see my blog here on Goodreads. After deciding what my world was like and the universe that it was set in, I had to come up with a story. I started by writing down half a dozen ideas and starting working on one. Then after I was 12K words in, decided I didn't like it and threw it out. Started with a fresh batch of ideas and picked a new one.

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