Goodreads asked Amanda Baker:

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

Amanda Baker I would love to have had a mysterious life so that I could mine it for plots. Sadly I am a straightforward person with a thankfully boring life. My work has to come from my imagination. However, I do use personal experience to help paint realistic backdrops for some of my books. I've never fought a dragon (see the Eleanor books) but I was a lawyer and a lot of the incidental information and characterisation in 'The Companion Contract' is my own direct experience. Oddly enough, some of the background detail folk find most unbelievable, actually happened...

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