Goodreads asked S.A. Collins:

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

S.A. Collins It was born out of something I wanted to do for the first fan I ever had. He is a big fan of werewolves. So I wanted to write something for him in that genre. Typically, I don't write to a specific genre but in this case I wanted to make an exception. I also thought it would be a really great idea to harken back to those good ol' movie going days during the 1940's and 50's when they used to run those short serial movies before the main feature. So HO'M,O is a decidedly gay take on that. It's spooky fluff stuff. It's meant to be a slightly scary homage to those silver screen shorts of yesteryear but with a gay and slightly erotic edge to it. I also decided to play with the idea that witches were involved in this world somehow. Since my husband hails from Wheeling, West Virginia I wanted to set it there – my little nod to him, as well. He helped me with keeping Hank O'Malley's voice truer to the W VA dialect within the piece. However, for clarity sake I made a conscious decision to scale back the dialect within the narrative (when Hank is telling you the story from his perspective); I did leave the Appalachian dialect intact for the spoken dialog. I think it comes off as a fairly easy read despite the strong dialect I've put in there.

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