Goodreads asked No Sell Out Productions:

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

No Sell Out Productions It's said that art imitates life... and with crime (particularly murder rates) at record-breaking levels in the U.S. in the past few years there's plenty to imitate.

Seems a lot of the perps are gun-toting young people. So our idea was to combine all the Kids and crime into a single hellish city that was seemingly infinite in size and scope, and from which there was no apparent escape.

Of course, it's more complicated than that; and it's messy.

The Kids aren't just cardboard cutouts. They have their (misguided) reasons and motivations for doing what they do. You and I may not agree with them (or maybe you do).

Add into the mix the dichotomy of the Haves and Have Nots--the ever-widening gap of influence, power, and control in which a small privileged elite have over the majority (the truly privileged of this world; not based on skin color, but on money--on wealth... anything else is a lie); an elite that will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and keep themselves in power... and that is the recipe for The Hell Bound Kids where the idea for our authors comes from.

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