A Goodreads user asked Francesca Zappia:

Hi ! I've read "Made you up" and this book is just amazing ! I haven't already bought "Eliza and her monsters" but I really want it, it looks fantastic ! I love so much the way you write :) I would like to know how you do to be so inspired to write books like this, with interesting characters and stories with full of unforeseen ? And YOU are really inspiring, thank you ! ( a french reader with an approximate English )

Francesca Zappia Hi! I'm so glad you liked Made You Up, and I hope you enjoy Eliza, too, if you get a chance to read it!

If you're wondering how I get inspired to write books like this, or where my inspiration comes from, it's mostly from reading books that I love, like Harry Potter, which has some of my favorite characters and unforeseen circumstances and plot twists. If you want to know how I come up with my own...I really have no idea. I think about the story for a while and I come up with nothing, and then I stop thinking about it, and then when I least expect it, BAM, characters and plot. Then I just have to figure out how to use them. Sometimes writing is real weird like that.

I hope that answers your question! And your English is great!

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