Goodreads asked Justin Newland:

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

Justin Newland That's a curious one. One day, I got to wondering why there are so many walls in the world, from boundary walls to fences, to frontier posts, to hedgerows, to natural barriers, to garden walls, etc.. That led me to write a short story about a fairly local wall, Hadrian's Wall, a story called Vallum Hadriani, which can be found in this anthology. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.... In turn, that led me to research the Great Wall of China, and to discover the Laolongtou.

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