Goodreads asked Lorri Horn:

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

Lorri Horn I traditionally write non-fiction essays about issues on my mind. When I taught high school, for example, I wrote about teaching during times of economic scarcity for classrooms. When I stayed home with my son, I wrote about his first year of preschool and my trauma of when the other kids didn’t let him join in on their dinosaur game. Often, in these pieces, I’d relate with humor some sort of problems going on in otherwise good situations, and rant about how they needed fixing. Dewey is a fix-it kind of guy. So, I can see why he’d emerge, but truthfully, I have no idea how it happened. I usually plan my ideas out methodically. In this case, one day, the idea for the book just came to me, and then more ideas developed each day, many times surprising me what came next as much as it will the reader. Dewey is a fixer, not just a suggester—which, evidently, I find much more satisfying.

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