Goodreads asked Leah Evert-Burks:

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

Leah Evert-Burks Both my novels are character-inspired by my maternal grandfather. The latest, Slices of Sky, is also location and situation-inspired. I spent a few summers in Central Montana with my grandfather in a small community along the Judith River called Sapphire Village. As a suburban kid the unusual draw of this place always fascinated me, as did my grandfather’s love for Yogo Sapphires. But the novel also provided the opportunity to examine the dynamics of a small rural community and as with my first novel, the strength of cross-generational friendships both which provide the guideposts for the story. I also used music as an enhancement to the storytelling, which I found quite fun and a different way of laying out circumstances happening in the novel.

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