Goodreads asked Nevada Bailey:

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

Nevada Bailey Honestly, this is a hard question to answer without giving away spoilers :) Everyone has a dark side to themselves. Everyone has intrusive thoughts about situations we don’t enact upon. So I would say, The ____ Within started with the idea of, “What would happen if I enacted on that darker side of myself?” Thus Jackson/Jack was born.

Next, was to address some situations that were the worst imaginable reasons for a development like what we see through this inner struggle. Soon the story just pulled itself together. But, I still needed to have a “villain” for the story, and I couldn’t make him too likable. So, when those intrusive thoughts start to be enacted on, we start to form into a version that we don’t like. We see choices made that we regret. But by then, it’s too late. You’re now a person you never wanted to be. Then we look at the recipients of our actions and wonder how it made them feel, which is where I explore the surviving victims and we see the characters act in accordance to those terrible tragedies.

The ____ Within is a story that developed a life of its own starting from that one simple idea I suppose. Action and consequences then became the overall theme propelling us to the pulse pounding conclusion.

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