Goodreads asked Bill Thompson:

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

Bill Thompson My most recent book is "The Relic of the King" which will be out later this month (March 2015). I love London, especially the old "City of London" which is the financial district and the oldest part of town. It dates back to the time of Christ. Every time someone begins to erect a new building the bulldozers find evidence of the Britons, or the Saxons, or the Romans. There are antiquities everywhere.
In my latest work a bookseller falls through his basement floor into an ancient crypt and discovers some amazing things about an ancient legend. A king and queen who were long presumed mythical suddenly may have lived after all. Murder, intrigue, deception . . . everything comes into play as people will do anything to possess the fame and fortune surrounding the discoveries.
Most of my ideas come like this - they involve something I've done, or something I read or even a story a friend might tell me. Ideas for books are everywhere. You just need to watch for them.

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