Why I Wrote Outage

It's been just over a year since I started writing Outage, and I've been getting questions from people that want to know how I came to write it. They ask me about my inspirations and how I chose the genre and characters. I never would have guessed that I would forget those things, but I did!

I remembered that a friend and I did NaNo together last year but I couldn't remember whose idea it was, or why we did it, so today I went back through my email to see how this whole thing started. It's kin...