Goodreads asked Jill Hunting:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jill Hunting I was on tour with my first book, FINDING PETE, and planned a day off to celebrate my birthday. My present to myself would be to visit the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. A vertebrate paleontologist there had told me that if I were ever to visit, he would set out all the fossils my great-grandfather collected in 1872. When I arrived at the museum, all the bones were spread out on tables. Some looked like white truffles. I didn't know that the thrill I felt that day would lead to a book, but I was captivated by the idea that my ancestor went on a paleontology expedition when he was 20 and found a dinosaur fossil. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Gradually, I realized that my curiosity was a book in the making. I finished the manuscript during the COVID-19 sequester.

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