Goodreads asked Ali Carter:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ali Carter Lots of ways really. Sometimes it's something in the news that will set off a similar idea and if I can work with it I'll give it a go. This is what happened with 'Blood List' because of the Harold Shipman case in 1999/2000, although I didn't start writing immediately and my G.P. (M.D.) character Charlotte Peterson has entirely different reasons for doing what she did. Inspiration for my characters come from a mixture of people I know and TV and film characters, and also the actors themselves. Sometimes I overhear a conversation when I'm in a coffee shop or at the hair dressers and think... 'Ooooh . . . that would make a good story/plot/scene etc. In fact my hairdresser gave me a fabulous scene for 'Dead Girls Don't Cry' just by saying three words!

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