Goodreads asked Lisa Goich:

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

Lisa Goich I went home to visit my parents for a long weekend just before Christmas in 2011. I thought it was going to be a normal visit - we'd hang out, eat, go shopping a bit, visit relatives. But on my first day back home, my mom announced that she was going to quit the kidney dialysis she had just begun. That meant she would die. And die in under a month. So I called my office and told them I would be gone indefinitely, and stayed home with my mom for her final days. Fourteen days later, she was gone. Writing through that time - posting on Facebook, mainly - go me through the rough patches. It was my therapy. Those small excerpts, at the urging of friends, became the seeds for my book. The pillars. My sadness and love for my mom drove this project. I think that's very common with memoir. And to take a short period of time, and turn it into a full story, was challenging at times, but I think worked out in the end.

My next book is going to be a novel, partly drawn from life after my mom's death as seen through the eyes of a widowed husband. It's the continuation of the story but fictionalized. Without giving too much away, there will be a lot of humor in this book. I can't wait to sink my teeth into it.

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