Goodreads asked David Griffiths:

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

David Griffiths I first had the idea for my Acme Time Travel books round about 1993, sitting on a London-bound train. I pondered the idea for a while, then tried to write the story, then got stuck, left it for a while (ie a couple of years), tried writing it again, got stuck again, then left it for a few more years. About three years ago I picked up the idea again, but this time I concentrated on building up the back-story. I realised that the previous times that I had tried to write this story, the reason that I had got stuck was that I had never developed the back-story sufficiently. I spent several months developing the back-story, and then found (to my utter delight) that I was able to drop my principal characters onto the back-story and they "engaged" with it. A truly marvellous moment.

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