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I was asked what inspired me to write The Commons: Book 1: The Journeyman in a recent interview, and the answer applies here, too:

I recently attended a memorial service I knew was going to be wrenching. A co-worker gave me a ride there, and when we pulled into the parking lot, we spent a few minutes just sitting in the car, trying to prepare ourselves to enter the church.

“I’m not good with death,” she told me. “I’m just warning you.”

“Neither am I,” I said.

And that’s true. And it’s a large part of why I created The Commons as a world to contain these characters and stories to come, I think. I’ve always been angry at the fact that good experiences must end, and good people have to go away.

What if they didn’t? What if the people and their imaginings continued? I played around with that idea, mixed in a desire to see the downtrodden and ignored given the chance to be recognized and make a difference, and suddenly I had a world I could populate with stories and characters for as long as I could make them up.

There’s a reason I’ve affixed the number one prominently to the Journeyman title: this is just the beginning.

Michael wrote: "I was asked what inspired me to write The Commons: Book 1: The Journeyman in a recent interview, and the answer applies here, too:

I recently attended a memorial service I knew was..."

That sounds amazing, Michael! Thank you for sharing.