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Goodreads asked K.P. Merriweather:

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

K.P. Merriweather My stories tend to come to me as weird dreams (I suffer from chronic insomnia after all). The Agency (Chain Reaction, Dangerous Methods and the rest) started out as a short story in high school english class (the scene appears in Chain Reaction, chapter 7). I worked on the story for years before publishing it in 2005. Though it sold well, I hated its existence. (it's vastly different from the version published in 2009). It wasn't the way I wanted it told. When I originally wrote it, i used to be zonked on pills and booze. So after cleaning up and clearing out my head, I pulled the old version out of circulation and changed it to what I have now. I no longer cringe at the mere thought of its existence.

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