Goodreads asked Chris Mentillo:

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

Chris Mentillo Plagued with habitual -- horrifying nightmares, work on this piece began back in 2011. If you read the introduction section of the book, “Obliterated” -- Everything is About to Change, you will find many answers to your questions regarding why such a book came to be. The motives are the same for why I continue to inscribe horror today. The only time this will discontinue is when the petrifying nightmares diminish or halt all together. Therefore, in some strange -- egocentric way, I am tenterhooks they will never stop.

Originally, when I first started to pen this novella, I was shooting for a 12,000 word short for a magazine submission. And one of the periodical's publishing submission requirements was to try and leave enough room at the end of the story to possibly be able to crack the story into a full-pledged novel.

So being adamant about submitting such literature (at the time anyway) to this horror magazine, I started to move headfirst in hopes of landing a "publishing contract" with the magazine company. Suffice to say, I never submitted the final draft, (polished copy) and so regrettably the manuscript found its way back to amassing up more space on my computer. A year had passed, and before long, (embarrassingly) two more years came to an abrupt end, before I finally took the initiative to take another hard look at where this story was actually going, and believe me, I still had no clue.

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