Goodreads asked Joy Jarrett:

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

Joy Jarrett A few years ago, my family stayed in an old converted schoolhouse on a working elk ranch in Colorado. The owner of the ranch insisted the schoolhouse cabin was haunted. It was summertime and stiflingly hot in the attic's sleeping quarters. I marveled at how dark it was on that ranch and listened to the eerie sound of elk bugling right outside the cabin. I got up in the middle of the night and had to navigate the twisting staircase by way of a very sharp elk antler railing. In the middle of the cabin sat the the rocking chair where the owner swore the ghost of a teacher from the schoolhouse's nineteenth century days would sit and rock. It all creeped me out so much. Old Cravings isn't a ghost story, but its horror was borne from the remote location and loneliness of that old schoolhouse cabin. The cabin was accessible only by a ranch road over three miles long. It got my imagination going like crazy and I couldn't help but wonder-- what if something terrifying happened here while being trapped by a snowstorm?

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