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    Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?

    Anywhere and everywhere! Once in a while, I will have an epiphany for a great plot that just pops into my head out of the blue. My second novel, The Drift, is a good example of that. Most of the time, I just get little sparks of an idea from daily life. In some cases, those sparks develop into a raging bonfire of material. The Wanderer, my latest book, is a prime example. The sparks can come from anywhere at any time and are often based on the smallest things. Perhaps I’m sitting at a bar and overhear a backpacker’s conversation about her travels around the world which spawns the…