Goodreads asked Martin Gallardo:

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

Martin Gallardo I wrote VillaBay first storyline during my last trip to North of Perú in 2016. I was there with one of my best friends. We spent two weeks in a very calm bungalow. I was impressed by the amount of wildlife despite being a very arid climate. I remember spending the sunsets fascinated by the Fragata birds. They would fly insanely fast towards the water and come out few seconds later with a caught. Every day, walking the beach I would meet many different species of birds, including vultures devouring dead sea lions. There were turtles in the port. Suddenly, I got all the characters and the location.

Few weeks before I had found the message already. Ascending Machu Picchu very early morning, taking the thousands of steps towards the entrance, I heard the voices of the "Chasquis", or old Quechua runners. They told me that I was not important, that the message was important. I was decided to write a book and I found the inspiration several weeks later.

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