This idea came to me a couple of years ago in Japan. I was quite excited by it and immediately went for a walk with my wife to tell her about it. She thought it was great. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. That’s clear from my early notes on the project, which contain whole scenes written out. In fact, this idea was supposed to wait while I finished The Time Well series, but I couldn’t turn it off, so I opened a Scrivener file and started typing. What came out over the course of a year writing on and off was Writers on the Storm. It’s my first try at making humor a significant aspect of a novel, and I’m not sure I really pulled it off. I think the humor got taken over by the plot somewhere around the middle of the book. But I like it. I may try to amp up the humor in the editing process, if that’s possible.