Goodreads asked Jeff Kalac:

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

Jeff Kalac "Through the Eyes of Outcasts" was actually a sprawling body of work that I had done shortly after graduating high school (just never you mind how long ago that was). I'll be honest here: Even I didn't know what it was. I only knew that certain characters had taken on lives of their own, and that it felt very human to me. It's not so much that I got an idea and started writing--it's more accurate to say that I started writing and got an idea.

Years later, I decided to dust if off and turn the opening act into a screenplay. It was down and dirty, meant to be an action film. While my author's notes in the novel detail this more closely, I'll sum up by saying that it finally found its voice, and I returned to the novel format as a way to express it. It's not one book--it's several. Each has its own feel, even if they share characters.

It took many drafts and revisions to figure that out. It certainly wasn't laser-focused planning on my part. I will say that there's a lot more of this saga on the way, and I couldn't be happier with it.

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