Goodreads asked Robert S. Turner:

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

Robert S. Turner I was actually contemplating a different book. I have written a number of short stories, sermons, and dramatic monologues over the years from the first-person perspective of characters who encountered Jesus. I was thinking about gathering them into a collection and writing some more to fill out the page count. I started with Judas, and I thought a cool idea would be to imagine his suicide note. After I got started, I realized it wasn't going to work for my planned project. It was going to be too long. So I thought I was maybe writing a novella. But as I kept pursuing the story, it got longer and longer until I knew I had a full-fledged novel on my hands.

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