Goodreads asked Bridget Allison:

How do you get inspired to write?

Bridget Allison I love mysteries, I love writers who range from Agatha Christie to Donna Tart to Charles Dickens. I have always written, but mostly poems, and those were for me. I won some small contests for poetry as a girl and in college but the thought of writing poetry for a living or any kind of "high literature was daunting. In fact it was stopping me altogether.
I decided to "write what I know." I included my father and his real name because he wanted me to pursue my writing and he actually was an amazing parent my parents derserve some homage for what they did for me.
Despite the humor in the series there is some darkness. Gretchen's demons are the demons I know myself and I wanted to empower her in the same way I was empowered to learn to live with them.
I appreciate the fans who point out that while these books made them "laugh out loud" they find Gretchen to be a much deeper character than one finds in most serial mysteries.

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