Goodreads asked H Raven Rose:

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

H Raven Rose I'm a screenwriter, as well as author, and a number of horror script projects for other writers (those writing scripts who want script notes or editing from a trained and experienced screenwriter) came my way this year. I co-wrote a horror script and did some script notes and a line edit on other horror projects. I was horrified to see so many writers create projects that didn't honor the horror genre requirements (every story requires a certain structure to fulfill readers/viewers). I'd never written a straight horror project, like my most recent book 'Dread Zone,' yet many of my stories have horror elements. So I conceived of an idea about four girls on a road-trip gone wrong. I was reading 'Nausea' by Sartre at the time that the story idea was emerging, which affected my prose style and character development for the tale. The entire story came to mind quite rapidly, over about four days, though it took much longer to write. I wrote the screenplay first and then did the novel adaptation. It includes a character who experiences angels and the supernatural who is learning to trust her intuition. In 'Dread Zone,' her learning to trust her intuition saves her life.

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