Goodreads asked Sara Allen:

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

Sara Allen For one of my current projects, it was a writing prompt that I read on Pinterest. I cant remember the exact wording, but it was about a necromancer who reanimates works with the police to investigate serious crimes like murder or disappearances.

I went off on an tangent with it, because a prompt can only ever be that. Once you start to think about it, the idea developed. yYou have to fill the plot holes, decide how long it's going to be, who will be the main characters, what they will be like ect.

But I get a lot of ideas from photographs. I recently started writing short stories using a photo as the theme. I posted them on my webpage, along with another author friend of mine. there are four at the moment, but I'm hoping to complete at least a hundred.

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