Goodreads asked Phil Brett:

How do you get inspired to write?

Phil Brett I always wanted to write. Don't know why. Perhaps, it was a form of day dreaming, but with less of a social stigma. What it would be, changed as the years went by, I think I wanted to be a poet at one point but my poetry is usually bad rhymes and there's only so many verses which can be written about cat and hat. After reading Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, I wanted it to be PI fiction. But in the UK. The setting stemmed from a desire to see a book written in the future, a hopeful future. I am socialist and believe people can change the world for the better. So hey, why not day-dream/write about a PI in a revolutionary Britain? Easy.

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