Goodreads asked Heather Fowler:

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

Heather Fowler I had online stalkers and had been researching mental illness due to some exposure I had to a few problematic people. When I cancelled an open fiction marathon due to a barrage of stalking/harassment, I realized I had a lot of stories that addressed the theme of mental illness and decided to form a collection around the topic. I'd only have to write a few more stories to have a book, I thought. I began to compile one to see what I could assemble. The book was instantly full and then I had this odd goldfish moment where I realized I had been writing on this theme, intermittently, for twenty years. Oh, wow, there's the castle again. I think I had seen it before... Many times. Who knew?

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