Goodreads asked Catherine Anderson:

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

Catherine Anderson I get ideas for books from observing real life. My most recent book was SILVER THAW. I lived through a horrible ice storm. It paralyzed our community in ways I never thought possible, and in the book, practically everything you will read about due to the ice storm actually happened in my world. Marble, the ewe, who lay down, froze to the ground, and ripped off half of her wool was a casualty of that storm. She lived by benefit of a wool jacket, just as Marble in the book does. The mourning doves lived on Cinnamon Ridge, and the female froze to the ground. Her mate mourned her death and died three days later. Anyway, I digress. I get story ideas from the world around me, sometimes up close and personal, sometimes by things I see on the news.

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