Goodreads asked Paul Mosier:

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

Paul Mosier I'll answer this on behalf of my forthcoming "Train I Ride." The lyric "train I ride, sixteen coaches long" by Elivs and others sounded like a good first line for a novel. "The train I ride is sixteen coaches long." The question then was who says the line-- boy or girl, man or woman? Why are they on the train? Where are they going? Once I decided on the protagonist being a 12 year old girl, I had to wait for her to reveal all of those things to me, and she was reluctant and less than completely forthcoming at first. The fact that my wife and daughters and i had recently taken a long train trip helped make the idea of a story on a train more appealing and easier to visualize.

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