Goodreads asked Emily Robertson:

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

Emily Robertson I get ideas for books all over. There's no telling where or when and idea will hit me. For Playing by the Rules, I got the idea from a dream. I dreamed a scene about a girl who was going through an issue and she was meeting with someone on staff at the school she was at. When she was finished, she met up with her boyfriend who was with a bunch of his friends. Seeing the whole thing play out, I knew there was so much that got them to that point, and I had to know what it was. I could feel everything she'd been through, and I wanted to tell her story. The scene from my dream never made it in the book, but it's what inspired the whole thing.

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