Goodreads asked Joaquín Ramon Herrera:

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

Joaquín Ramon Herrera I'm into the 3rd act of a book of a Horror/Fantasy fiction novel now. It's actually a rewrite from the ground up of a novel I wrote in 2005, which was a (bloated) 330pp. It's much leaner now.

I can see where so many elements of the book were fueled and shaped by life events and my experience...but I cannot for the life of me discern nor remember where the central idea—two children who notice the town's kids are being replace by clones—came from. Perhaps just a terror in the human soul. A Twilight Zone type fear. What if everyone around you were changing in ways even they didn't know, into something terrible and nobody admitted or saw it....aside from you?

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