Goodreads asked Mary Feliz:

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

Mary Feliz This is a tricky question to answer, because ideas tend to bubble up over time after "cooking" for so long I've forgotten where the idea originally came from. I wanted to write "Address to Die For" and the Maggie McDonald for several reasons. First, I thought that while news stories, movies, and books offered a decent portrayal of a portion of life in Silicon Valley, they tended to focus on the whiz kids like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. I thought they were missing a portrait of the day to day life of ordinary people in a world where there is enormous diversity among the population in terms of nationalities, cultures, religions, languages, and incomes. Navigating in that world can be tricky because what is a normal cultural response to one person might offend another. Silicon Valley, although crowded and busy, is also situated in an area of incredible natural beauty and opportunities to explore. I wanted to portray that part of living here, too. In addition, people here are passionate about even the most minute details of community life. Our schools and towns can spend decades debating the use of land and public buildings. Tensions can run high. I wanted to imagine what might happen if those tensions built to a ridiculous extreme in people who would truly stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

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