Goodreads asked Colleen Faulkner:

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

Colleen Faulkner Coming up with the ideas is never the problem, it's choosing the right one for my next book. Like most writers, I'm an observer. (I've been called an eavesdropper.) I watch the world around me; I read the news. I'm very good at reading people and I'm fascinated by what makes us tick. I take little tidbits of information and ask myself "What if?" and somehow that becomes a premise, which sometimes becomes a book. Like most writers, I also take bits from my own personal life. Anyone who knows me well will see glimpses of me in my female protagonists and recognize events from my life. For example, growing up as a child, I had a great uncle who met a young woman at a carnival and brought her home to be his wife. It was quite a scandal. This tiny thread becomes the center of the new book I'm working on, What Makes A Family. The book isn't about this; it's about the complications of a family, good and bad, but Aunt May is there, buried in the pages and she makes me smile everytime I see her.

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