Goodreads asked Ron A. Austin:

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

Ron A. Austin I got the idea for Avery Colt Is A Snake, A Thief, A Liar from a writing exercise in a pedagogy class. Truth is, I forget the prompt, but it had something to do with writing a childhood memory. I wrote about picking june berries with my granddad, and that brought on a flood of emotion and connected memories. I put those feelings and thoughts aside for another year or two while I experimented and practiced in graduate school. When it came time to write a thesis, I returned to that starting point in childhood and worked from there to synthesize everything I had learned up to that point.

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