Goodreads asked Nicolas Wilson:

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

Nicolas Wilson Seeing as how I'm sequeling, right now, I'm continuing old ideas. Coming up in November, I'll be writing a full novel in a month and posting a chapter daily, as it's written, until the whole manuscript is out. The project is a cyberpunk dystopia, Next of Kin. It follows a future in which the police are no longer trusted by the public, and crimes are investigated by the victim's next of kin.

I'm not really sure where the idea came from- I have far more ideas than I ever end up using, and rarely make the connection about why I got the idea before the draft is finished. Mainly, it's noir-ish and I enjoy writing that style. It also kind of ties in with a short story I wrote years ago, Save As, in the connections between technology, biology, and psychology. So in some ways, even as I outline it, it feels like coming home.

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