Goodreads asked Loren Edizel:

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

Loren Edizel I was asked to submit a short story for an anthology called Izmir in Women's Stories (Kadin Oykulerinde Izmir) a few years ago. I wrote "The Conch" for that anthology and it is the first of the nine stories in my upcoming book "Confessions, a Book of Tales". The experience was liberating and exhilarating after having written two novels. Before I could finish the first story I found myself thinking about the next two, so that it felt like I was constantly ahead of myself and rushing forward. I couldn't wait to sit down to write, every day. I had a dream in the midst of this activity, where I stood in what looked like the Aegean Sea on a summer day, limpid water coming up to my waist, and I looked down to see dozens of small fish swimming around me in circles. The dream made me realize there was a collection of stories waiting to be written, and they were all connected at some level. After I wrote nine of them, I kept hoping more would come, but that was the end of it. The whole thing ended as abruptly as it began.

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