Goodreads asked Michael Potts:

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

Michael Potts As a young teenager, I was miserable mainly because I thought I had blasphemed the Holy Ghost and was going to hell. In addition, I often dreamed of a demon that looked something like a cross between the ancient Greek comedy mask and the salt-sucking creature from the original Star Trek. I decided to combine the two events with a demon causing the main character, Jeffrey Conley, to have obsessive thoughts. I tried an interesting tactic--making the demon a Lovecraftean being in Azathoth's court who disguises himself as a demon in the Christian tradition. His goal is to get Jeffrey to despair and commit suicide so it can feed on the ruins of Jeffrey's despair. A final strand that went into this book is my "quirk" of being obsessed with the human (physical) heart. Together, they make for a unique and frightening book.

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