I dreamt the final scene, aware that it would be a good final scene for a story, and based the story around that. I recommend it. A mixture of personal experience and research. I covered the press for any Eastern European story during the late '80s, having travelled round Romania, Hungary, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany etc. I was aware that it was a luxury for me to travel in these countries, when their inhabitants were not free to travel round my own country.
Authors often talk about fitting their work to a market.
I'm afraid I don't write to a market. I'm not sufficiently interested in tailoring what I write for a particular market - especially at novel length. Consequently, my novels have so far not been great sellers. It's easier with a short story. Although, in a sense, Saxophone Dreams is a zombie novel.