I often get asked how I come up with story ideas. Where does my inspiration come from? I wish I had a solid answer for that. Because it would make it a lot easier to come up with something new for my next book.

It’s not the same formula for each book. For The Trouble with Mr Pretty, I had a dream of a scene and quickly wrote it down when I woke up before I forgot it. That scene turned into a story. I thought I’d only write one book. But then while writing The Trouble with Mr Pretty, secondary characters I wrote in that story put their hands up and said, ‘excuse me, I want a book too!’. And that’s how Chasing Trouble and Trouble in Disguise (book to be released soon) were born.

Other times, a sentence will randomly pop into my mind and I’ll work from that. This is the sentence that’s started the story I’m working on at the moment and I must tell you, I had no intentions of writing anything for a while because I was out of ideas.

Here it is:

If
Holly had a dollar every time someone called ‘how much?’ to her as she walked
through Sydney streets, she’d have a first-class plane ticket to the Bahamas.