Goodreads asked Midge Raymond:

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

Midge Raymond The idea for FLOREANA came to me during a visit to the Galápagos Islands, during which I got a glimpse of the magnificent Galápagos penguins and learned about conservation work being done for them -- as well as learned about the strange human history of Floreana Island, in which a group of European settlers arrived on the island beginning in 1929 and, within five years, two of them had vanished (never to be seen again) and two others had died under mysterious circumstances. What really happened? I envision what might have happened in FLOREANA, when in 2020 a penguin researcher finds the long-lost diaries of one of the settlers and learns the true story.

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