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Goodreads asked S.M. McEachern:

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

S.M. McEachern "Sunset Rising" was the culmination of academic research, my love of YA literature, and my lifelong dream to become a writer. The idea of the story first came to me back in my university days when I read a paper on the biodome experiment in Arizona as part of my research on ocean-atmospheric interaction. But since I was pretty sure that on its own would make for a spectacularly dry YA story, I added a nuclear war, some people, a defunct government and a group of underdogs. Voila.

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