Goodreads asked Howard Shrier:

How do you get inspired to write?

Howard Shrier Mostly be being a news junkie,constantly reading, scouring, devouring things. Example: a three-paragraph story about Westerners going to China to jump organ donation lines sparked my third Jonah Geller novel, Boston Cream. The gist of the news item was that the number of these transplant tourists was outnumbering executed criminals -- suppposedly the only source of organs in the country. Jonah never went to China but the book did focus on organ theft in Boston.

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