Goodreads asked Susan Hancock:

How do you get inspired to write?

Susan Hancock As a University Lecturer I became accustomed to the necessity of writing up research for work purposes and published, successfully, with Routledge. I enjoyed doing some creative writing, but was not inspired to write fiction until I stopped teaching (a cancer I was not expected to recover from took over my life at that point and I couldn't guarantee being around for postgrad students needing a supervisor for long periods of time.) Thanks to the miracle of a brilliant oncologist who supervised my chemo and radiotherapy I have survived so far (statistically I had a 13% chance and my body took it!!) The downside is being virtually unable to walk due to the effect of the tumours on nerves in my spine and radiotherapy side-effects. For a while I couldn't contemplate writing, but then, In February 2019 an idea came to me... I have no notion from where. Kat and Thomas, my first characters came into my mind together with a setting. Real world characters and problems transposed into an other world situation and time. I started to write, and found that the difficulty was stopping. It's less inspiration than obsession - I have to do it!

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