Goodreads asked Nancy Peacock:

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

Nancy Peacock Actually I'd given up on writing. I was discouraged. Every book seemed to wring me out emotionally and because they were not huge successes in the publishing world, I wondered if I should keep on. I was empty. Nothing creative was going on for me, but every morning I got up and walked three miles in the dark to the top a hill to watch the sunrise over a pasture. It was beautiful and profound, and one day a line entered my head from nowhere. "I have been to hangings before, but never my own." This was the first time that Persimmon Wilson spoke to me. I did not forget it. That night I watched the Ken Burn's documentary on The West and began to wonder if there had been any black Indians. I count this as the second time Persimmon Wilson spoke to me. I began writing the next day.

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