A real-life story About 18 years ago, I was approached at a reading I was giving in Perth, Ont., by a man named Hugh LaFave. LaFave wanted me to help him with his writing and asked if I would. And I did.
I was so intrigued by the character of Rabbit Foot Bill. One of the stories that he had that he wanted to write was the story of Robert Foot Bill, who was somebody he had known, when he was a child in Saskatchewan. I worked with him for a while and he wrote a version of it himself. At some point, we also decided that I might try and write a version of it. I was so intrigued by the character of Rabbit Foot Bill.