Goodreads asked Sara Spark:

How do you get inspired to write?

Sara Spark I am inspired by odd things. I will be checking out in the grocery store and think to myself. What if a woman was just doing her usual day, swiping a can of soup across the scanner and an alien beamed down into the grocery store, looked around and grabbed her to take with him? (And yes, I am always thinking about a romance as I do this!) What would that look like? How would she feel? What would they say? I have always been fascinated by the extraordinary and where it overlaps with the ordinary. I find the contrast between them intriguing.

My mind is constantly saying: "What if?"

So needless to say, I am that absentminded person that walks off leaving a bag at the checkout. Or drives off with a bag on top of their car. It's cause I am busy in my head crafting alien abductions at the grocery story!

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