Goodreads asked C.J. Spammer:

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

C.J. Spammer I actually started writing Misled more than 10 years ago. I don’t remember what prompted me to start, but I discarded the one and only chapter I had written by hand because after writing those three A4 pages nothing else would come. I drew a blank. I liked what I’d written, so I stashed it away in a draw and completely forgot about it.
About 3 years ago, while clearing out some junk, I stumbled upon those few handwritten pages and felt such excitment when reading them. If they hadn’t been written in my own hand, I would have thought someone else wrote them.
I remember thinking, “Oh my word! This is really good. I have to see where this story is going.” I honestly had no idea where it was headed or what was going to happen, but I felt compelled to finish it. It felt like I was reading someone else’s story. I wanted to know what had happened between Sara and Justin. Why had Sara left them?
Months later I still didn’t really know, until I read Dorothy Koomson’s book “Goodnight, Beautiful”. Something about that story resonated with me and I had a sort of “Aha!” moment. After that, the story pretty much wrote itself.

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