Goodreads asked Bobbi J.G. Weiss:

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

Bobbi J.G. Weiss My most recent book is "Hooked." I wrote this answer for thewriterslife.blogspot.com, one of the many kind hosts on the Pump Up Your Books "Hooked" virtual book tour:

I got the idea for "Hooked" waaaay back in 1990, when Disney's "Peter Pan" was first released as a VHS and I'd bought a copy. I remember the moment exactly — I was standing in my bedroom looking at the cover, and I thought out of nowhere, "Captain Hook isn't a villain. He actually seems rather unhappy. But why?" I decided to read the original novel by J.M. Barrie, and I discovered that Hook is miserable, often falling into "melancholy." And I thought, "Why did Barrie make him that way?" True, Pan took Hook's hand, but that makes Hook angry, not melancholy. The melancholy seems to come from somewhere else. I toyed with the idea for years, being too busy at that time earning a living as a writer to do more than jot down plot ideas. (The last thing you want to do after a long day of writing is write.) It took me practically 20 years to finish!

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