Goodreads asked Charlie Sheldon:

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

Charlie Sheldon When I wrote Strong Heart in 2013-2014 the original frame had some sailors crashing ashore in a lifeboat and then, when awaiting rescue, hearing a story about this ornery girl, told by William, one of the main characters. In the end I stripped out the frame (the lifeboat rescue period) and just told the story in Strong Heart, but then I had chapters of this lifeboat tale sitting around and I thought, well, how did they get there, and when, and what happened, and this is what made the second book in the series, Adrift, which is the story of that ship accident and what happened to that lifeboat and William, first written in 2014 as a rough draft. Then, when I was on a ship in 2015, I wrote another story, to clear up some loose ends in the first two books, and this book eventually became Totem, my most recent book, which essentially concludes the Strong Heart Series.

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