Goodreads asked Ben Svensson:

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

Ben Svensson The idea behind my book, “The People of the Stone,” started years ago at my grandmother’s house when I was a young boy. My grandmother had a shoebox filled with ancient stone tools that had been unearthed on their farm through the years. I remember standing there holding this one old stone ax with a perfect hole in it and wondering who had made this magnificent tool so long ago. I was able to find out how old the ax was and how it would have been used, but there was no information about the maker of the ax. I wished that I could somehow talk to the person who had made the ax and learn from them. I imagined how great it would be if I could somehow communicate with the ax maker by touching the stone. I thought about what I would see, hear and feel if I could somehow pick up a memory placed in the stone so many thousands of years ago.

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