I hear that a lot.  Unbelievably, I can get a book idea from almost anything.  DH was watching the show Pawn Stars a few nights back when I spotted an item that I thought would work great in the hands of a serial killer.  I took notes.

     An overheard conversation will often make its way onto the written page.  Don’t scream at someone on your cell phone if you don’t want your conversation to be the dialogue for someone’s book.  Your right to privacy stops when the decibel level goes up.  I’m a people watcher.  I find many characters wandering off the street and into my books. 

     Then there’s the ‘people I enjoy killing in print’ category.  Those people are changed, rearranged, disguised, and are usually the bodies that my protagonist finds.  They are people who have caused me harm and heartache.  The corpse could be the idiot who walks his dog past our place and never cleans up after it. 

     I know whom it is that I kill off but my victims never do.  It’s so liberating and much better than paying a therapist.