Goodreads asked Brian O'Hare:

How do you get inspired to write?

Brian O'Hare I have been writing most of my adult/professional life without ever having been aware that I was actually writing. I wrote numerous academic articles, many research reports for the Department of Education and for the University of Ulster and never considered myself a writer. I always assumed I was 'explaining' or 'arguing a point'. Only after I retired and almost died (I needed a liver transplant), did the notion of writing come into the picture. I wrote the story of my 'near death' and it was published by a Dublin publisher. A couple of biographies followed that, and suddenly I thought, 'Maybe I'll have a go at fiction.' Fallen Men was my first novel, followed by The Doom Murders. I am currently writing a sequel to the Doom Murders and I am now beginning to wonder if maybe I am a writer. (Fallen Men and The Doom Murders are soon to be published by Crimson Cloak Publishers, Missouri. The 11.05 Killings will appear next year.)

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