Goodreads asked Hannah Kaye:

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

Hannah Kaye I grew up with three sisters, all of us close in age (think "Little Women" in real life) and we played a ton of crazy make-believe games. The main characters, setting, and basic plot points of "Goldwater Ridge" were borrowed almost entirely from one of those games. The book is peppered throughout with inside jokes, references, and funny little quips that hearken back to that goofy little game we played when we were little. "Goldwater Ridge" is essentially a love letter to my sisters, who were and still are my biggest sources of inspiration, and to our childhood, which I wouldn't trade for all the gold in the West.

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