Goodreads asked Robin Tompkins:

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

Robin Tompkins Well, not counting the one I’m still working on, my most recent book would be, ‘The Road to Bell Hill.’ It’s the second part of my ‘Bell Hill,’ trilogy. I finished it during the first lockdown last year and launched it last August. At its roots, the ‘Bell Hill,’ trilogy, comes from wanting to write about, extremism, intolerance and persecution. I wanted to be very free to write about those things though, so it needed to be set in a fictional world. To be honest, as always, I also wanted to entertain. I don’t do, ‘relentlessly grim,’ it’s not in my nature. A fantasy setting helps with that too. The ‘Bell Hill’ world, largely stems from me thinking about past persecutions, thinking about witch trials, persecution of witches, the deaths of hundreds of innocents, mainly women, because of twisted ideology and dogmatic thinking. That was the jumping off point and I built the world from there.

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