The Making of Salem to Salem: An Introduction

My most personal, most important and most valued book

It took me a while to write this book, and it was mentally taxing to write this. I spent six months labouring over something that was always going to be tough to write, although there were periods of lightness and relative calm while I wrote this book. There's something about the pilgrim lifestyle, that world before electricity and the internet, which was soothing to live in; maybe that's why the world appealed to Peddlarson and co.

Some of my favourite ideas are in this book. I do love the idea that (SPOILER) there would not have been a revolution in America if a capitalist system had been instigated under the British. I also love how (SPOILER) the hippies try to turn the colony into a nomadic paradise but end up recreating the same fifties suburbs of their childhoods. I find that experience with life; whatever you try, exactly the opposite happens.

. There's not much class politics in this book (Abigail is one of the richest colonists) though there is a lot of politics in relation to the women, and especially gay, childless women, who in real-life would have been targeted by those witchhunts. I'm not a complete idiot and had to acknowledge that this is what happened. Like I said, whatever you want to write; exaclty the opposite happens. It just so occurs that, in this case, the right thing happened, and I wrote something that reflected real-life and not some BS men's rights fantasy.