Goodreads asked Robin E. Mason:

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

Robin E. Mason I mentioned in one of the other questions, being outdoors is my muse. I will never forget where I was walking, one afternoon in July 2008, when the first paragraph of the prologue of Tessa, "came to me." I got home and immediately wrote it down. I made some progress over the next few weeks before I lost a significant portion of work when my computer ate it - and I couldn't bring myself to write for a long while. I then began 4 1/2 years of college, and after graduation last year and no job in that field, I began to pursue my writing in earnest.
There is an element of myself in Tessa, in her feeling of being invisible and of no significance. She is not me, but I do know how she feels, and not only because she is a creature of my imagination.
I'm an actress also, and as I write, I can close my eyes and be in the scene; I write what I see and hear and experience.

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