Goodreads asked Samuel Colbran:

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

Samuel Colbran I am an avid gamer and years ago I created an idea about retired adventurers. When I was starting this game, I thought to myself 'hang on maybe this is delving a little too deep into my story'. So on the fly, I change it.

Which then it seems to become my style, telling a story by a third party recollecting the past, then going back to that time and living like it was the present. The group of people I gathered to help me create my world, was the best thing that could happen as they help me expand it to what it revealed in Lake Merrin.

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