Goodreads asked Tim Weed:

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

Tim Weed The novel was a long time in the making. I’d been doing some historical research related to my ancestors, who’d been early English settlers of New England in the 1630s. I also have Native American ancestors, and I was intrigued by the collision between these two very different cultures. The fact is that there isn’t all much known about that interaction – we have hearsay and scattered archaeological remains. The written historical record is actually rather sparse, and it's entirely from the English perspective. So in a sense the story came to me because I passionately wanted to know more about a certain time and place, and fiction was the only way I had to get beyond the limited picture I was developing from my research.

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