Goodreads asked Adam Lewis Schroeder:

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

Adam Lewis Schroeder This answer's on my Goodreads blog too:
I’d written half of a historical novel set here in Penticton, it was going well, but I've always read a lot of comic books so I took one of the early Walking Dead collections out of the library, a while before the show came out. My wife was talking about this fictional character she loved, a massive American ex-MP named Jack Reacher, and all of his traits like wearing clothes for three days then throwing them away, only ever eating the same meal which involved a haystack of bacon, and how he wandered the country kicking ass in the name of homegrown justice. So thanks to the Walking Dead in my hands we spit-balled how Reacher might get along as a zombie—some cross-country mission, kicking ass even while his limbs dropped off, craving bacon instead of brains. We have wonky conversations like that all the time but this particular hodgepodge had momentum. Plus I’d have to eat heaps of bacon as, you know, research, so All-Day Breakfast got to jump the line in front of the historical piece. It would be non-stop good times.

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