Goodreads asked Danielle Austen:

How do you get inspired to write?

Danielle Austen I'm not one who can just be struck by the idea for a sordid sex scene and then bang out a quick short story around that fantasy. I like writing full-length novels where the story comes first and the sex comes second; so I'm very slow when it comes to writing as ideas take a while to formulate and blend in my mind. The inspirations for my current work in progress are wide ranging and include the current state of the erotica market, David Lynch's avant-garde "Lost Highway", my feelings on art and creativity, a trip to San Francisco, cop drama The Mentalist, and the result of some of my very personal meditations on death and sex.

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