Vena Cork
When one of my daughters was fourteen she was stalked for several years. The inspiration for my first novel, Thorn, came from this, although, as with most ideas, this was a jumping off point, and what happened to us, bore no relation to anything that happens in Thorn.
It's very hard to know what inspires a book. Sometimes the germ of an idea turns into something entirely different. Sometimes writing a novel is like doing automatic writing - you're the medium, but who knows where the message comes from.
It's very hard to know what inspires a book. Sometimes the germ of an idea turns into something entirely different. Sometimes writing a novel is like doing automatic writing - you're the medium, but who knows where the message comes from.
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