Goodreads asked Lisa Amowitz:

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

Lisa Amowitz Yikes. I can't really always pinpoint where my ideas come from, but I will say that my creative process for that is a lot like the way I design. I throw a bunch of disparate ideas around--like a lot of what ifs? I tend to pick a location for my story to get the mood, then imagine a character. For Vision I knew i wanted a rural setting and a sort of hard-working country boy. I knew I wanted some kind of supernatural intrusion to disrupt his already tough life. Then somehow a lake I'd forgotten about jumped into my head and next thing I knew the boy, Bobby Pendell was fishing on that lake and thought he saw a human skeleton at the bottom of it. Sometimes my ideas just unfold--but it's usually either when I'm washing dishes, driving, or in the shower!

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