Complex sentence: His debut novel is "The Clockwork Three", a children's historical fiction set in the late 1800s to early 1900s was inspired by a newspaper article Kirby came across in history class in college.
Split into simpler sentences: His debut novel, "The Clockwork Three", is a children's historical fiction set in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It was inspired by a newspaper article Kirby came across in history class in college.