Goodreads asked Alex Hartwell:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Alex Hartwell Oh geez . . . if it's a plot in one of my books, it'd be a pretty awful mystery! But I can tell you that every single one of my stories reflects something or some feeling in my life. Take "Yellow Eyes", for instance -- being lost on interminable, winding highways in southern Missouri, no cell service for miles, with all those spear-like shadowy trees in thick clutches on either side of the road, and the only light for miles in front or back of our vehicle being our headlights. It gave us the weird sensation of being a bubble of light floating through the darkness -- a very lonely feeling indeed.

That of course turned out much worse for the family in "Yellow Eyes" than it did for me, LOL, but you get the picture!

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