Goodreads asked Jay Pelchen:

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

Jay Pelchen The idea for The World That Was came to me in a university physics class, when the lecturer was describing that we use a certain historical convention but in reality the universe works completely the opposite. This got me thinking about other dumb conventions and how the world would be much more efficient if we could change them. My list of things that I would change slowly grew until it eventually spun out into a time-travel adventure. Noting the science-based origins of the idea, I wanted to try creating a story that was as realistic and scientifically plausible as possible. This led to my characters' one-way journey to the past and years of research about forging steels, medieval mining and typical wheat yields!

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