Goodreads asked Madeleine Mitchell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Madeleine Mitchell I've been writing since I was a kid, and used to write horror stories for small underground press in the 1980s. I then began writing articles for newspapers and magazines. I then stopped for about 15 years as I concentrated on my work as a professional dancer/teacher. Then one day I got a reading off a spiritual medium, who told me I would be writing about America and getting a book published. At that time I didn't believe him as I knew nothing about America, and had absolutely no interest in writing about either that or anything else at the time. But then, out of the blue, I saw Lewis Powell's photo and everything changed. It was like it my destiny to write about him and bring him to life on the pages. And as cheesy as that sounds, I felt as though he needed to be depicted as a human being rather than the monster he's mostly been written about.

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