Goodreads asked David Tallerman:

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

David Tallerman It's strange, perhaps, but I hardly ever know in retrospect where a particular idea came from. Maybe it's because I have projects on the boil for so long; often it's months or even years before I get to put a first word down. So a story might begin with something I read, or a detail from a dream, or a particular conversation, but after it's been processed for week after week and slowly hammered into something that functions as a plot, that original idea has changed so much that often I'll struggle to even remember what it was.

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