Goodreads asked Roberta Grimes:

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

Roberta Grimes I like to work on two at once - that way, if one wants to cook for a bit I can skip to the other. My two most recent books are The Fun of Staying in Touch, about afterlife communication, which has been on my mind since The Fun of Dying came out in 2010 - I knew almost at once that The Fun of Dying was the first of a trilogy. The Fun of Growing Forever - about spiritual growth and what the afterlife is like - will come out in 2016 or 2017.

On the fiction front, the first trilogy of my Letters From Love Series will be completed when Letter from Wonder is published in September. I found a thirty-year-old novel of mine quite accidentally in late 2012 and knew immediately that it had a sequel, so I spent 2013 writing Letter from Money (that old novel became Letter from Freedom). Then as I was finishing writing Letter from Money, Letter from Wonder just came fully formed into my mind, so I wrote that one in late 2013 and early 2014. Each novel gave me the idea for the next one! But the ideas about what human nature actually is and what we really are that are at the core of the alternative culture in the Letters from Love Series come directly from what I have learned about human nature from studying the afterlife evidence. In truth, we are glorious and perfectly loving eternal beings! Who knew??

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