Goodreads asked Craig Nova:

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

Craig Nova It really is hard to say where an idea for a novel comes from. I know this since the ideas for the 14 novels I have published have come from different places. Sometimes, in a way I don’t understand, I will see something like a picture. For instance, for a book called Tornado Alley, I saw a dusty street in a small town in the central valley of California. For a book called Cruisers, I was interested in what was known as the Colebrook Incident, in which a man shot a number of people in northern New Hampshire and Vermont. For the Good Son, my father in law, a fighter pilot who spent three years in a German prison camp in WWII, told me many stories about this experience.

The short answer is, I don’t know. But I can say this, when one appears, I recognize it when I see it.

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