Goodreads asked Roxanne Bland:

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

Roxanne Bland I had to think about this one--my life's pretty pedestrian. You know, work the day job, come home and write, work the day job, come home and write, and so on. All the good stuff happens in my head.

I did have one weird occurrence, once, though I'm not sure you'd call it a mystery. Late for an event, I was driving to Annapolis MD from Washington, DC. I really wanted to get there on time, so I floored the accelerator. One of the things I noticed was that there was no traffic, which was very odd, given the population of the area. So anyway, I arrive at the venue where the event is being held, look at my dash clock and am stunned to see that only 10 minutes had passed from my leaving DC and arriving in Annapolis. I ask the parking valet what time it is, and his watch agreed with my dash clock. The reason this is so strange is because Annapolis is 40 miles from DC. Even driving twice the speed limit, I would not have made it in 10 minutes. How did I do it? I don't know.

It did give me a story idea, though. What if I'd stumbled into a time travel experiment conducted by a mad billionaire or the U.S. Department of Defense? And now, since I was the only person to live through the experiment, they're after me. If I'm caught, once my usefulness to them is over, they're going to kill me to keep me from talking. So I have to stay one step ahead of them...

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