Goodreads asked Rosemary Ness Bitner:

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

Rosemary Ness Bitner Idea? Well, there's a lot of factors that input themselves into one's mind; but, the best way to describe the idea for the last book is the light bulb effect, the Ahh Ha moment, when all the thoughts about human behavior just sort of clicked and attached to my imaginary characters. It's a function of letting one's mind think beyond and below what one observes on the surface of life's stage. It's the glimpse of a character trait of someone you remembered, and then attaching that trait to a fictional character in a fictional story. It's a magical thing. Like when Bud is purring on my lap, my mind just goes off on these wild spins, kind of like a Ferrari screaming flat out on a straightaway. It won't stop. Nothing stops it! It just races forward wild horse powerful, at an exhilarating breathtaking pace until I collapse exhausted late in the evening. Bud is asleep by then. I stumble off to bed and awake in the morning to read what all spewed out of my mind and try to make sense of it, try to keep what's good and toss what's too crazy! Ideas, God love ideas!

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