A Goodreads user asked Amy Plum:

Where did you get the idea of the Revenants?

Amy Plum After pondering Kate’s character, I began making a list of supernatural beings that I could write about. Vampires were out. I felt like every possible angle on them had already been covered. Ditto werewolves. What was left? Ghosts, mummies, fairies, and all of the mythological creatures like satyrs and the like. I wasn’t happy until I had crossed everything off the list except "gods” and "zombies”. I wondered if I could combine the two.

I was drawn by the undead angle because, as a historian, I loved the thought of giving my characters backgrounds based in recorded history. But how could a zombie be attractive? How could a teenage girl fall for one without being worried that he would gnaw her face off during their first kiss? And what about that ultimate turn-off-y odor of decomposing flesh? I laughed my way through scenario after scenario before deciding I would have to come up with my own monster. And that is how my revenants were born.

This is from my FAQ, where you can see the answers to lots of other questions: http://www.amyplumbooks.com/faq/

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