Goodreads asked Claus Holm:

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

Claus Holm My most recently finished story, which will be part of "Between Above and Below" is called "The Guardians" and is a story about an angel and a demon who has to work together to look after a child - as a guardian angel and guardian devil. I got the idea when I heard someone talking about the idea in Islam, that there is an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, throughout your life, writing down everything you do. I thought: "Well, what if they're too big for the shoulder? What if they're just walking around us, looking at us and maybe helping out or doing damage at the same time."
At about the same time, I heard the expression "Bad Things always happen to good people" used in conversation, and I thought "That's not true. Good Things also happen to good people - and bad to bad people. But is that the work of an angel or a demon?"
And there was the story...

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