A Goodreads user asked Scott Robert Scheller:

What about your book, The Haunted Tree? How did you get the idea for the story?

Scott Robert Scheller The short answer: Some time back I wrote a book, FEAR OF THE DARK, and an agent liked it but said the craft needed some cleanup. She was too kind. I joined a working writers group and learned the Craft of Writing. My "class project" was to be a short story I could repeatedly edit-to-death as I learned, and I made it a prequel to FEAR. 1500 years in the past, prequel. That "short story" gained a life of it's own as HAUNTED TREE, a full-length novel.
I plan on writing 2 parallel-themed book series concurrently: The MAGUS FAMILY CHRONICLES, of which HAUNTED TREE is the first, and AGENTS OF THE LIGHT (modern day Paranormal Urban Fantasy), of which FEAR OF THE DARK is first. I have the next three books of the Chronicles series planned, and six books in the AotL planned. In Fact, about half of book 2 and 80% of book 3 are already written, with major scenes of books 4 & 5 written or heavily outlined. I would like to alternately release 1 title in each series, but probably only after AotL 2 and 3 are done (since they are so far along). I am currently editing FEAR, but do not have a projected release date.
For a quick history of the origin of the HAUNTED TREE, read my acknowledgments at the beginning of that book via Amazon's "look inside".

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