I have been writing for ten years now and it feels like I started yesterday. Time does fly when you are having fun. The title of this blog comes from the title of the panel I sat on at the BookEm'Book Fair last weekend. I am asked all the time by aspiring writers "where do you get your ideas?" Well sometimes they come from the most ridiculous places. For, The Secret Diary of Sarah Chamberlain, the inspiration came while scrubbing black scuff marks off a kitchen floor. I thought it would be cool if the kitchen disappeared and I found myself in a 19th century parlor. In, Treasure of the Battersea Bluffs, I was staring at 240 year old floorboards in a rundown villa and imagining a villain hiding a body under the boards in the 18th century, and then having them discovered by my character, Emily Grace, in the 21st century. Sometimes the ideas come from thought provoking questions, "Why would teen girls accuse God-fearing women of being witches?" I guess the most truthful answer would be that 'I don't know where they come from' they just come. May your day be blessed, Sarah