She stocked her yard with unsalted, shelled peanuts and observed the visitors-a crow mating pair she named Dart (male) and T (female)-from the other side of a glass door. And b efore she began writing in the voice of S.T., she read everything about crows she could get her hands on, listened to crow calls while driving, and consulted with biology professor Douglas Wacker at the University of Washington Bothell, the winter home to a roost of over 10,000 American Crows.īuxton didn’t stop at secondary research about birds for Hollow Kingdom, though. With the beginnings of a plot in mind, Buxton began the research process for the book and for all the creatures that would appear in it, including hippos, octopuses, orangutans, and a menagerie of “feathereds" that S.T.
After finding and trying to rescue a chick she found while walking her dog, the debut novelist became fascinated by the birds and desperate to write about them. Then, one day, an idea came to her: “What if a crow is telling the story of our species? Of our extinction?” "If you told me four years ago I was about to write a book with zombies in it, I would have said something is wrong with your crystal ball," she says. It’s a bizarre concept for a book, no doubt, but it's impressively pulled off by author Kira Jane Buxton, who definitely did not set out to write about sassy crows or the living dead. searches for healthy humans while evading escaped zoo animals and rescuing pets trapped inside houses by their lack of opposable thumbs, all while cracking crude jokes and bemoaning the rude wild birds that had made fun of him for years. Caught in the liminal space between bird and human, "S.T.," the talking crow who longs to be a person, would do anything to save his owner and best friend Big Jim from a technology-fueled disease turning people into murderous zombies. Accompanied by his trusty steed, a bloodhound named Dennis, S.T. When humans start losing their eyeballs and grinding their fingers down into stubs, a pet talking crow might be the only animal who cares enough to save them.
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