Goodreads asked Cate Meredith:

How do you get inspired to write?

Cate Meredith I find inspiration everywhere. I am never without ideas. I believe that to be a writer, it is critical to be an interesting person first and foremost. Without being an interesting person, your writing is going to be flat and boring. So I try to just be interesting - go outside, meet people, learn new things, try things, watch people.

I find that the inspiration for my books is always an interesting woman. There will be something just slightly off about her and often she's in a situation that doesn't match her dynamic personality. For example, in At Any Cost, Fallon Hughes was a boho hippie chick trapped in the most conventional life imaginable: she was a corporate lawyer and the daughter of the President of the USA. That to me is intrinsically interesting.

In my newest book, Crash Into You, Aimee Baxter is a creative woman who has gotten involved with an overbearing, abusive boyfriend. The fact that both these characters - Fallon and Aimee - must reach way outside their normal lives in order to become who they truly are is really exciting and interesting to me, and lights that fire inside me to write their stories.

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