I started writing this story during the COVID-19 pandemic, and with so many people out of work and getting sick, community is all the more important - even if we can’t physically be in the same room.Īt the time I was starting to develop this novel, one of my best friends began coming out as nonbinary. This one theme has remained the same from this original story concept - the importance of supporting and caring for the ones we love. This was because the story was told through a nameless character’s perspective, and the most important thing to them was their chosen family, their community. Initially, only three people in this family had names - Sergio, Ian, and Jen. Jericho began as a story about a family driving through the desert during the apocalypse. Then an insurgency swallowed the US capitol on January 6, 2021. Then federal officers were deployed to Portland’s streets. When I started working on Jericho, I just wanted to write a story with a nonbinary lead about a family in a dieselpunk dystopian world.
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