Sophie Haws asked Miranda Kenneally:

I loved your book Breathe, Annie, Breathe! Where did you come up with the plot for this story?

Miranda Kenneally I love running and I've trained for a marathon before, so I thought it might be neat to write a book about what it takes to train and run a marathon. I thought that coming to terms with a death would be a good plot to complement the marathon training, because both are very tough things to work through. In terms of characters, I made Annie a very normal girl, because I want regular girls who may not be that athletic to know if they work hard, they can learn to run long distances too. For Jeremiah, I just wrote about the kind of guy I would've loved to have dated in high school/college. Thanks for your question!

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