Goodreads asked Douglas M. Laurent:

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

Douglas M. Laurent When I was growing up I was rather consigned to my father's cob-web ridden basement where I worked out in martial arts 3-4 hours a day and read literatures from around the world. I did this for years while attending school and so I had ample time to study the masters, and peruse my soul. Sensei Shakespeare taught me how to do rhymes as his play scenes often have poetic flourishes at the end. And Master Dante gave me a vision of the unseen, so instilled with a passion for epic poetry and literature and from spiritual observations of daily life, I decided to see if I could write like my Tutors had so eloquently taught me. "Valley of the Damned" plus its two other existent sister volumes, are the products of my many varied realizations and emotions these masters so beautifully cultivated within my soul. Prose can only explain and describe. Poetry, on the other hand, elevates common daily life unto epic proportions that touch the very vaults of heaven.

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