Q. Where do you get
the ideas for your books?
A. There is no one
answer to that question, but generally I have an active imagination and ideas come
to me fairly easily. I got the idea for Time Capsule several years ago when I planted
a tree in my yard and wondered what would happen if I found something buried
there. I decided to write a story about that and it eventually became a book.
Because it’s a fiction novel, I had to create all of the people,
places, events, dialogue and so on, which was a lot of fun. I’m a former journalist so I used real
people, places and events for inspiration but turned it all into a fictional
narrative, built around two main characters who are newspaper reporters like I
was.
Once I got started with the discovery of the time
capsule, I crafted the rest of the story from actual experiences and some that I
invented out of my own head.
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