Goodreads asked John Baur:

How do you get inspired to write?

John Baur I was feeling sorry for myself. My agent, who had been trying to sell my first novel for almost two years, wrote to tell me that it was "dead in the water." At the time I had just finished reading a new novel to review it. It was OK, but not anything great. How did *he* get published? And I thought to myself, "It's OK, but I could do better. Wait, I DID do better! And I can do even better than that!: And I sat down and started what became "Chrissie Warren:" Pirate Hunter." And I was right. It IS better than that book I was reading.

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