Goodreads asked Dean P. Turnbloom:

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

Dean P. Turnbloom Since it's the third of a trilogy, that is self-explanatory, but the genesis of the original is, I think, both unique and surprising, and shows just how much change it's gone through from the beginning germ of an idea. I got the noodge of an idea (noodge is my own word for mental spark) for "Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire" while listening to a song by James Taylor from his Copperline album. The song is called "Frozen Man". Ideas are like flu germs, they can come from anywhere when you least expect them.

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