Michael Raymond -- Author

It occured to me that some visitors to my site might be interested in the writing process that became the book.  I will reflect on the creation here and welcome comments and questions.

In 2005 I wrote the first few pages of what was then planned to be a story about terrorists. Those pages sat for quite a while before I took up the story again, about six months.

I began writing in earnest after being inspired by a book by Carolyn Cee called 'The Literary Life'. In it she told of her own beginnings, writing her first book. The incentive thought was 'write anyway', good or bad. You can fix it up later, but just get it done. I liked that thought.

The book was a third written when the concept of the aliens first came into the story. Up to that time, it was genuine terrorists doing the nasty. It seemed to me that the world wasn't going to be happy with more about terrorists, given what was going on at the time.