Michaela
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Catherine Ryan Hyde:
Dear Ms. Hyde, I am super excited about your newest book coming out on the 19th, as it's on my birthday. It will be the second book of yours I've read (plan on catching up on all of them over the coming months). May I ask what inspired the story for "Brave Girl, Quiet Girl"? The plot sounds so intriguing, and I do not believe I've seen any books with anything close to it in a long time! Thank you again for writing.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Happy almost birthday!
I'm sorry to have to report that I don't really have the answer to what inspired the vast majority of my stories. I guess people figure I must know, because they don't have fictional people and stories popping into their heads out of nowhere. In other words, they are normal :-)
What happens is that I know I need a new story, so I hold still until I get a sense of a character and just a flash of something happening in their lives to change things. Then I sit with that until it gets more detailed. It really does come straight from "the ether."
Great to hear that you plan to catch up on my books. I should warn you though... that's a lot of reading!
Thanks for reaching out.
I'm sorry to have to report that I don't really have the answer to what inspired the vast majority of my stories. I guess people figure I must know, because they don't have fictional people and stories popping into their heads out of nowhere. In other words, they are normal :-)
What happens is that I know I need a new story, so I hold still until I get a sense of a character and just a flash of something happening in their lives to change things. Then I sit with that until it gets more detailed. It really does come straight from "the ether."
Great to hear that you plan to catch up on my books. I should warn you though... that's a lot of reading!
Thanks for reaching out.
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