Today we welcome author James Cristina to share the inspiration behind his new novel Antidote to a Curse.

I wrote a short Story, approximately ten pages, that I published years ago in an American gay quarterly magazine. I wrote this story, in pen, in one sitting and was surprised by how effortlessly the words flowed. In some ways, this would prove to be the kernel that gave rise to the novel—even though I ended up shedding this section later on. About the same time a character, not presented in the short story, came to mind, a hybrid, Kafkaesque character. I had been working on some short lyric poems and the character first appeared in one of these poems that I presented in a workshop class run by Judith Rodriguez. The inspiration to the novel would be this convergence between short story and character that emerged in one of my early poems.

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