Goodreads asked Timothy Cole:

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

Timothy Cole If you mean the Night Light: An Anthology (2014) book, it was a follow-up on our 2013 compilation, Midnight Oil: An Anthology. I am a member of the Blank Slate Writers Group, a bi-monthly, informal group of aspiring authors. As with many such groups, we meet for a couple hours and read our most recent creations. Over the past few years, we found that some really good stuff was produced, nearly all of it unpublished and known only to our small group (10 to 20 people of all ages and persuasions). An experience by one member with self-publishing through the CreateSpace organization, a subsidiary of Amazon, gave us the idea of publishing a book of our best. So we did it! We compiled, we edited, we did the layout, we designed the cover--we did it all! And for a very affordable price without selling our souls (our creations) to copyright doom.
It proved to be very popular and satisfying, and since we were now driven to produce, we decided to do it again--and will probably produce a third anthology. Be on the look-out for it!
In our latest anthology, I am one of sixteen authors; four of my unpublished short stories appear in Night Light....

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