Goodreads asked Bill Schutt:

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

Bill Schutt With "Cannibalism" (which they're calling "Eat Me" in the U.K.), it just seemed like a logical followup, thematically, to "Dark Banquet" which looked at the natural history of blood-feeding creatures. Both topics are generally greeted with some degree of horror, derision or disgust. As I thought there would be, there were plenty of interesting stories to tell about the real science behind the myths and misconceptions. It made for some interesting field trips as well. My next nonfiction book (which I'll be co-authoring with artist Patricia J. Wynne) will follow a similar format.

The initial idea for Hell's Gate came to me when I visited the Central Plateau region of Brazil and commented to my friend that until recently it would have been pretty easy to hide just about anything in a place so far from prying eyes. The potential for strange and undiscovered fauna in such a spot was also something that struck me during my visit there. My coauthor and I simply riffed on those ideas, added some truly nasty technology, and the result was Hell's Gate.

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