Goodreads asked Holly Brown:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Holly Brown I love this question. The funny thing is, usually I get my ideas from listening to NPR (at least, that was true for both DON'T TRY TO FIND ME and A NECESSARY END.) But THIS IS NOT OVER, my most recent, was sorta kinda not exactly inspired by a real life event. That is, I stayed in a vacation rental and after checkout, was accused of having left a "child-sized gray stain" on the sheets so the host would need to keep my security deposit. I fired off an angry response--"My child is not Pig Pen, this is b.s.!"--and she fired one back. We were both righteously indignant and sure we were right, and I thought, What kind of women would just keep going? What would they need to be avoiding in their own lives, and what would their backstories have to be, in order to just keep escalating? I loved creating the psychological kindling and then lighting the match for Miranda and Dawn.

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