Goodreads asked James Dalessandro:

How do you get inspired to write?

James Dalessandro As a kid? Listening to my father, the son of Italian immigrants, talk with our neighbors about their harrowing adventures in WWII. My father survived 4 years in the U.S. Navy, fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. He was a brawler, a race track aficionado, a boxer, a story teller. I was a voracious reader: first comic books, then Leon Uris - Exodus, Battle Cry - by 12. At 16, I was reading Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Right now, for me, it's history. We live in boring, dangerous times. I'm constantly finding great, untold stories, more than I'll ever be able to tell in the time I have left.

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