Barbara Spencer solves problems in her sleep.
I work with both primary and secondary schools, where the most frequently asked question is, where do your ideas come from?
Recently, I got to thinking about that. I often solve plot problems in my sleep – and it works brilliantly. Go to bed thinking about the problem. Hey Presto! It’s fixed when you wake up.
But Running – that was a different ball game. I thought about it for ages. And by ages I mean a couple of years. I knew computers were taking over the world and that few people really understood them. Then, my computer caught a virus and the world began to wake up to hacking. And so Styrus was born, it’s a virus, so powerful that it can penetrate any firewall, steal the computer’s secrets and override its commands.
Can you imagine having that sort of power? That’s the background to Running – where the bad guys want Styrus so they can take over the world, and they’re not particularly bothered how many people they have to kill to do it.
Scott’s motorbike? I met a guy in a garage. He talked about his Suzuki for half an hour – how he rode up to Scotland. I was sold.
As for the rest, it’s a rollercoaster ride – non-stop thrills and spills – with America
as the bad guys and England merely an island off the coast of Europe. And you won’t know who done it till the very end and even then – you’ll want to go on and read the sequel Turning Point, out as an ebook at the end of May.
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