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Goodreads asked Shealy James:

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

Shealy James I'm a daydreamer. Always have been. Always will be. All my books start with one situation and one character. The become the first scene I mentally write. Over time and through a little obsessing, a character becomes a whole person, and their life is an extension of the one scene that started it all. What's the first scene in each of my books? Now that would be telling, wouldn't it?

Put it this way. The original scene often ends up being relatively minor in the completed story.

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