Goodreads asked Susanne M. Dutton:

How do you get inspired to write?

Susanne M. Dutton Ha! I was inspired to write by a fifth grade teacher, Sister John Maureen, an IHM nun from West Chester, PA, who read my spelling homework to the class when I was out of the classroom. Rather than writing the spelling words in sentences, I was a smarty pants and put them all into a story. In fact, she sent me out to be sure I didn't get a "big head" about it. Actually, I was trying to please her, as she was at a new school in California and told us repeatedly that "the children in the East would NEVER behave like this!"

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