Sarah
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David Williams:
I'm currently reading (and loving!) an ARC of When the English Fall. How did you come up with the idea for this book?
David Williams
Glad you're enjoying it, Sarah!
I'd always found the Amish fascinating, ever since I studied their culture for my senior seminar in Religious Studies at UVA. I found myself out for a walk one lunchtime many years later, right after reading an online essay about the Carrington Event, the largest solar storm to hit the earth in modern history. As I contemplated the impact of such a storm and how it would devastate our tech-addicted culture, I suddenly thought, huh, how would that impact the Amish? And wouldn't that be a fun story to write? Then the title just popped into my head, and I knew I'd have to try to put it to paper. I sat on it for a few years...the kids were young, and life was crazy...but it always seemed like a story worth telling.
The good folks at my publisher had me write a longer essay on the inspiration for the story, which you're welcome to take a gander at on their website if you'd like:
http://algonquin.com/wp-content/uploa...
Again, glad you're enjoying it!
I'd always found the Amish fascinating, ever since I studied their culture for my senior seminar in Religious Studies at UVA. I found myself out for a walk one lunchtime many years later, right after reading an online essay about the Carrington Event, the largest solar storm to hit the earth in modern history. As I contemplated the impact of such a storm and how it would devastate our tech-addicted culture, I suddenly thought, huh, how would that impact the Amish? And wouldn't that be a fun story to write? Then the title just popped into my head, and I knew I'd have to try to put it to paper. I sat on it for a few years...the kids were young, and life was crazy...but it always seemed like a story worth telling.
The good folks at my publisher had me write a longer essay on the inspiration for the story, which you're welcome to take a gander at on their website if you'd like:
http://algonquin.com/wp-content/uploa...
Again, glad you're enjoying it!
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Feb 09, 2017 02:25PM · flag