Goodreads asked Justin Newland:

How do you get inspired to write?

Justin Newland I get inspired to write about things that everyone knows about, or thinks they know about, and then through the writing get them to look at those same things in a different way or from a new perspective. That's why I write historical fiction. We think they 'know' about history, but do we, really, know not only what happened but why it happened? History is really a series of fragmented facts joined by pieces of string by modern historians. And there's more hiatus than series, since there are so many gaps. That's why history is so fascinating to me as an author, because you can point your imagination at the gaps, and allow it to fill them in.

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