No New Ideas?

Happy Belated New Year, everyone! I hope 2018 is finding each of you well!


I've already had five author events this month (no, I don't have a lot of free time!). I talk to lots of people at my events, and I happened to have two people at two of these events mention the same concern to me:

That there are no new ideas.

In the first instance, the man who mentioned this to me was worried because he'd always wanted to write a novel, but ended up reading another novel that turned out to be nearly iden...