February 3, 2021
Lost World Post Three
Week 5, Day 3 – Lost World
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Cover Design: Jimmy Gibbs
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With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place. But the group’s morale is at an all-time low, and they now know it’s not just the dead they have to fear. Weeks of wandering brings sickness, death and loss to the survivors, and Vivian soon finds herself losing hope of ever discovering a safe place to live.
What can you tell us about the setting in Lost World?
This is one of the few times that I’ve set a book in a place I’ve never been: Colorado. I struggled with what to do and where my characters might end up after leaving Vegas, and geographically it made the most sense. It wasn’t too far, plus I wanted them in an area where there would be a good amount of snow so the reader could see the zombies freeze. I thought it was realistic that the cold would affect them in this way, plus it gave the characters a little bit of hope.
I was inspired to add the hot spring after remembering a trip I took to Arkansas as a kid. We went to visit a family friend and while we were there went to a hot spring, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. I thought it would be a nice reprieve for the group to find a place where they could relax and get clean even if it was only for a short time, and it would give the reader a chance to see how the relationships had changed and grown during the weeks the group spent on the road.
Hope Springs isn’t a real town, and it isn’t the only time I call a town in one of my books Hope. In When We Were Human, there’s also a little settlement called Hope, and since I was already writing that book when I started this, I played with the idea of changing one of the names, but ultimately it made sense that more than one person would call their town Hope in an attempt to keep spirits up.
