Jenny Jo Weir asked Tommy Wallach:

Hi Tommy. How did you come up with the story for "Thanks for the trouble"? Is it really what you wrote to get into college or just your wonderful imagination making that part up as well? Just curious, it was one of the best I've ever read. Looking forward to your other works. -JJ

Tommy Wallach Ha! I wish I'd been so bold as to write a 65,000 story to get into college. No, it's just my crazy little brain making things up. As for the college application conceit, I wrote a novel as a grad school application more than 10 years ago. Nothing ever came of that one, but I held the concept in the back of my head, and it ended up making sense for this project!

Anyway, thanks for all the kind words! :)

-t

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