Goodreads asked M.E. Tudor:

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

M.E. Tudor My new book, Tornado, that is coming out next month came from a visit to my home town of Roachdale, Indiana. I actually lived in Barnard, which is a tiny unincorporated town about five miles from Roachdale. I'd gone back for my 40th high school reunion and was surprised by how little had changed, including the cliques that had existed when we were all in school. I wouldn't allow myself to consider being gay back in those days. My parents weren't the ones I was afraid of knowing, it was my friends at school and their parents. I knew a couple of kids that would have been treated very badly by their parents if they had come out, and that led to me starting to write Tornado. It's about surviving abuse and finding love with unexpected people.

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