Question: I can relate to reading the backs of cereal boxes. 🙂 Where do you get the ideas for your stories and what has been your greatest inspiration?
Answer: Ideas come from all kinds of places – from dreams, from bit of news on the television, from conversations overheard in restaurants. Sometimes I’m conscious of the exact moment an idea for a novel began. But for most my novels, the ideas seem to creep up on me. The Perfect Life was more the latter. One day I simply recognized I had the premise for a story rolling around in my head, then I began brainstorming the bigger picture and eventually the novel was born.
Some of my novels have come from deep personal experiences. Because God has walked me through dark places and brought me out on the other side, I want to share with others the grace He has shown me. Since I am a novelist, fiction is the main way I can do that. And naturally, the faith element of my novels comes out of my own faith experiences, from lessons God has taught me or is teaching me. Sometimes I’m looking for answers right along with the characters of my books, so writing is a form of discovery for me.
Question: I know you hear this all the time, but I have to ask: Do you have a favorite of all the books you have written so far? Why is it your favorite?
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Enjoy! I’m still recovering from jet lag. Went to bed Saturday night at about seven o’clock–I thought I was only taking a nap, but I didn’t get up until Sunday morning! 🙂 But at least I slept through the arrival of daylight savings time!
~~Angie
Another great book! You may make me go broke! 🙂
Kinda hard to get over jet lag when you have to lose an hour over here, huh? I hate this time change, although I like the lighter evenings. But at least my kids are on spring break this week so we can adjust without the early morning school alarm!
LOL! I could use a spring break, Linda! At mid-point this week I have to fly out to California, so I’ll be jet-lagged in the OPPOSITE direction for a while! But I’m sure it’ll all balance out in the end.
Enjoy those no-alarm mornings!
Angie
I just finished this book last night and Robin has a winner! You really start to feel like Katherine, the heroine, living her anguish and confusion when her “perfect” life is thrown into chaos. There were times I wanted to say “No. It’s not how you think!” But then, I’ve never had to walk in Katherine’s shoes, exactly as she has had to do.
Without saying too much to create a spoiler, I’ll end by saying, it’s simply a great read!
Wasn’t yesterday wonderful?
Patti