Goodreads asked David D. Blankenship:

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

David D. Blankenship For "Power Cycle", I loosely created the perpetual movement invention described in chapter 1 when I was the same age as the character. Later as a teenager, a good friend of mine and I used to day dream about the benefits and consequences of free energy. Lastly, when the peak of the pandemic was feeling most chaotic, I began to wonder what would happen if people would collectively just start raiding homes. That spawned a fear and I put that all together for this plot.

For "We Are Alone", the fault in time travel stories first came to mind when I read Michael Chrichton's "Timeline", when it was new. He's my favorite author, and it was a cool plot, but I realized at that time travel stories never made sense because we're moving. Even the classic H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine", moving through time from a static, physical location, should have actually been visualized more like moving through space at super-fast speeds. So, with the idea that time travel is space travel, I thought I could have a "Fire in the Sky" inspired story with a fictional explanation. Also, I have an odd fear of worms, so I worked with that.

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