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Goodreads asked M.J. Patrick:

How do you get inspired to write?

M.J. Patrick My son inspired me to write. One day he started calling himself 'an author.' Instead of my motherly instinct kicking in and saying 'that's wonderful'. The reader side of me said, "you can't do that. You've never written a book."

He informed me that after reading several popular books, he determined if they could do it so could he. And so he did. After he won one of the Sammy Book Club awards, he challenged me to do the same.

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