Goodreads asked Heidi Pitlor:

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

Heidi Pitlor My most recently finished book is my novel, The Daylight Marriage, which will come out next year. I began it a while ago (in the process of writing it, I had twins and worked, so it took a long time). Not long before I began it, the Laci Peterson story was all over the news. I began to pay attention to the frequency with which beautiful, missing women appeared in the news. I was not surprised, but was curious about what made this such a gripping story both for the media and for viewers and readers. My novel began as an exploration of this common story and my curiosity-- and turned into something different as I worked on it. But the media stayed in the novel, if to a lesser extent than I originally intended, as did the beautiful, missing woman. The rest became a story about marriage and happiness and parenthood, as well as how the smallest decisions in life can often snowball into choices that we never foresaw, at least consciously.

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