Goodreads asked Carolyn S. Spiro:

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

Carolyn S. Spiro I get ideas from everywhere - sometimes a snippet of conversation will set off a cascade of ideas, sometimes it's a conflict that I want to resolve, often I'm inspired by a particular situation that seems to lend itself to being enlarged into a story. I'm always in the middle of several projects. My current non-fiction project is really about the things I say to my patients and trying to flesh them out into chapters of a book.

I'm also working on completing a novel where the characters are fictional, but the ideas and conflicts come from what I deal with every day: after a terrible childhood tragedy, a woman forges a successful career only to find that when things go bad again in adulthood, she's faced with the very issues she never resolved decades ago. Will she run and hide or can she face herself and change direction?

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