Goodreads asked Francine Beaton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Francine Beaton Maybe years of following rugby and the increasing popularity of the game had been the inspiration behind, or the reason for the series, Playing for Glory, of which Eye on the Ball is the first book to be published. When you meet a fellow rugby enthusiast on a boat cruise on the Hudson during the Fourth of July celebrations, there had to be a reason why such a meeting made an impression. It was only on the long flight from New York to Johannesburg that the idea of the series started to form. Before then, I never considered writing about my beloved sport, not even romances. For the eight months since that New York trip, I plotted and wrote the first six books in the series and outlines of several other books. None of them was Eye on the Ball.

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