Goodreads asked Suzanne Gates:

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

Suzanne Gates After my mom passed, we found in one of her drawers a Hollywood scrapbook from the 1940s. She had collected publicity shots of movie stars, and cut out articles from fan magazines of the day. I was transfixed, as this scrapbook gave me a perspective on my mom that I had never known. I held in my hands a version of my mom--her 1940s-era dreams--that made her at once both human and vulnerable. I set out to learn more about those dreams, and to learn about the many young women who moved to California hoping to have those dreams fulfilled.

I suppose you could say that THE GLAMOROUS DEAD is an exploration of my mother's movie star dreams. I found out that the dark side to those dreams was very, very dark.

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