Goodreads asked C.S. Wachter:

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

C.S. Wachter Two and a half years ago, after meeting with a few other people from my neighborhood who wanted to write, I sat down at my laptop and started writing. I'm not certain where the idea came from. There wasn't a specific inciting incident. The first line I typed was: "Travis was a seasoned world skipper. He had traveled the skipping lines—those mysterious wormholes between the seven planets of the Ochen System—into and out of all seven worlds for the better part of forty years. He had worked hard to build a reputation as a vendor of specialty procurement services."

That line is no longer the first line in the book, it's been moved. But because it was the start of my journey into writing a book, it's found a home in chapter 3.

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