Karis asked Elizabeth Camden:

Where do you get your inspiration for your books? You have written about many different time periods and places and I wonder how you can chose so easily.

Elizabeth Camden Thanks for your question, Karis! I usually get my ideas while researching for whatever book I am working on. For example, WITH EVERY BREATH was set in Washington DC, and I had a couple of scenes at the Smithsonian and the National Library of Medicine. I had to do some research to figure out what those places would look like in 1890....and so doing stumbled across some fascinating info about the Library of Congress, which was under construction. A-ha! The seeds for my next book were planted.

One of my biggest challenges as a writer is not to go too far down those rabbit holes while I am researching. My curiosity takes me all over the place, and I can usually stumble across some little-known but fascinating historical details I think are worthy of a book. After that I merely need to think up some interesting characters to plunge into it.

Thanks for asking!

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