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One of the questions we get asked a lot is, "Where did Patrick Smith get the inspiration to write A Land Remembered?"
When asked why he wrote the book, he often said he did it because nobody had done it before. That's what he told me, and I think he was somewhat joking. He told my sister the following, which is a much more meaningful motivation: "The reason he picked that particular time period was because back then a family was really a family and he liked that. A family was born together, lived together and died together, unlike today's time where they can be thousands of miles apart and could care less about the parents or the brothers or sisters." I imagine it is a combination of the two.
From his research and writing of Forever Island and Allapattah, he learned so much about the pioneering families in Florida and some of the natural disasters that had struck that he began researching further. The deeper he went in the research, the more A Land Remembered began to take shape in his mind.
In this short video, he talks about how he went about researching and writing the novel.
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18 сен 2024
