Goodreads asked David Niall Wilson:

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

David Niall Wilson My most recently published book, Gideon's Curse, is a novel of bigotry, history, North Carolina, and America, in general, around the time of the Reconstruction. It tells the story of generations of a racist plantation owning family, and of the family of a lone preacher who walked all the way from Illinois to preach to the freedmen - it is a supernatural thriller with swamp magic, zombies, rednecks... and a lot of brutal honesty. The book was born of a long ago Nanowrimo - I started to write it, stole the first part and turned it into the novella "The Preacher's Marsh," then finished it and realized the time-line for the family and history was off... and it sat. I rewrote this book in 2017 - fixing the problems as I went along, and tightening it. If the reviews are to be believed, it's one of my best.

https://www.amazon.com/Gideons-Curse-...

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