Goodreads asked Fay Risner:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Fay Risner I've always got one or two books going at the same time. The different series I write get easier with each book since I know the main characters so well. Sometimes I want to write something entirely different. Christmas With Hover Hill was that - a romance, humorous and small town in Iowa combination. This started out in a contest as a short story. I'd seen robots such as Hover Hill but not with human features like Hover Hill.
I'm always taking pictures that might work on a book cover and had been itching to use the Cinderella Coach. So I expanded the short story to a book which included a very obnoxious robot, an English professor that didn't want anything to do with men, a handsome farmer and the Cinderella Coach. Several of my ideas have come about as a way to use a picture I have taken on the cover of a book

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