Goodreads asked Abigail C. Edwards:

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

Abigail C. Edwards I grew up hearing stories about my mom's family and their Sicilian mafia/New Orleans mob associations. I've been wanting to write a YA mafia book since forever (there aren't many out there!), and my experience as an artisan baker + my food science background + my newfound obsession with olive oil kind of all spiraled into me writing the book I desperately wanted to read: a book about a mafia family running a bakery and trafficking olive oil into the country.

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