Goodreads asked Beth Hilgartner:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Beth Hilgartner The way my creative process works, even if there were a mystery in my life that I could make into a plot for a book, you wouldn't recognize it when I was done. I'll give you an example: when I wrote Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom (which, in case you haven't read it, is a fantasy dealing with what happens when the main character stops her car on the Interstate, walks into the woods, and ends up in another world, where it turns out she has a destiny and a task to fulfill), what I was working on in my own life was my call to the priesthood (in the Episcopal church): something I felt I was being called into, but that I felt unequal to. Not exactly mystery-book material, but there it is.

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