Goodreads asked Rodney Ross:

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

Rodney Ross I can honestly recall an image of a young boy, maybe 10 or 11, sitting on a dock on a river or lake in darkness...in my own adolescence. I don't know from where this stillshot came: a film, maybe, an ad, or my own fertile imagination. But I would re-visit this kid occasionally. Sometimes he'd be fishing. Or he'd have a large dog as a companion. But the mysterious noises on water at night -- thumps and bangs and big splashes and occasional yelling -- formed a soundtrack. Was his time out there joyful, of tragic? Where was his home? So began, literally, 40+ years later, 'Diversionary Fires'.

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