Goodreads asked Pat Bertram:

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

Pat Bertram My dance class went to see Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a glorious and gloriously funny all male ballet troupe. At lunch before the show, someone mentioned that I was a writer, and another woman suggested I write a book about our class of older women and even volunteered to be the victim. And so Madame ZeeZee's Nightmare came into existence. It was the easiest book for me to write because if I needed inspiration, I just needed to go to class and pay attention to the undercurrents. Later, I'd fit those currents into the story.

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