Caitlin Starr asked Heather Anastasiu:

Was there anyone/anything that inspired you to write Glitch, Override and Shutdown?

Heather Anastasiu I always loved dystopias ever since I read the Giver when I was a kid and 1984 as a sophmore in High School and always knew I wanted to write one. They were just so perfectly representative of the kind of oppressive sense of control of The Man and Big Brother possibilities of governments and corporations, plus all the crazy advances in technology that have happened in the past twenty years. Haha, I'm actually not a giant conspiracy theorist or anything, but when my hubby read a Popular Science article about how they were implanting GPS chips in Alzheimer patients, my head started twirling about what OTHER chips people might start implanting in our heads in the future... and the idea for Glitch was born!

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