Goodreads asked John Nicholas Datesh:

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

John Nicholas Datesh My most recent book (by a few days) was The Last Three Minutes, which is a cyber ghost story.

The story developed from an incident with my laptop. It lost exactly three minutes, suddenly. I tried everything to fix it and failed. Ultimately, it did find those three minutes but because of anything I did.

My cousin Lynn thought it would make a good gimmick for a story. I worked backward from the lost three minutes to decide what would give those three minutes meaning.

For The Body in the Bog (put out a week earlier), it sprang from my throwaway line about how perfect it would be to find the lawyer my sister Janet particularly despised floating face down in the flooded central area of my condo complex which I had started calling The Bog.

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