Goodreads asked Ksenia Anske:

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

Ksenia Anske My most recent published book is ROSEHEAD, and the idea for that came from one of the many gruesome stories my mom would tell me on the phone when I call her. She lives in Russia (I'm from Russia) and she would recount to me some violent abuse episodes that happened in our family (I have had a very colorful childhood) and after each of these stories I would have nightmares. ROSEHEAD came to me in a nightmare, just one scene about an old man luring women into his house and scalding them with hot tea on purpose. It went from there. I added a talking dog, a girl who likes to investigate things like Sherlock Holmes, a carnivorous rose garden and the story was born. But it started from that one disturbing scene that came to me in a nightmare.

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