Craig Barner asked Samantha Silva:

Did you rely more on factual detail, more on your imagination or about the same of both for Mr. Dickens and His Carol?

Samantha Silva The best answer I can give is that Mr. Dickens and His Carol is a mash-up between real circumstances in Dickens' life that led to the writing of the Carol, and my imagination. The set-up is all pretty accurate: he was a literary star, over-extended financially, had a growing family, a lavish lifestyle, friends and relatives who depended on his largesse, and was a great philanthropist. It's also true that Martin Chuzzlewit was a flop, and that Dickens desperately needed a money-spinner to get him out of debt. The rest is my flight of fancy; I wanted to take Scrooge's journey and imagine Dickens experiencing it for himself as the inspiration for the book.

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